The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unsuccessful \Un`suc*cess"ful\, a. Not successful; not producing the desired event; not fortunate; meeting with, or resulting in, failure; unlucky; unhappy. -- Un`suc*cess"ful*ly, adv. -- Un`suc*cess"ful*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. Not successfully; without success. alt. Not successfully; without success.
WordNet
adv. without success; "she tried unsuccessfully to persuade him to buy a new car" [ant: successfully]
Usage examples of "unsuccessfully".
Suicide, when tried unsuccessfully so often, often develops into homicidal mania.
The Tonton Macoute stared at Taureau for a moment with unbelieving eyes, and then, blood fountaining from his shoulder, he fell weeping to the floor, trying unsuccessfully to stanch the bleeding with his remaining hand.
Necker himself, and, when he could neither convince nor overbear him, had tried, though unsuccessfully, to enlist the queen against him.
She had no questioners among her people, and accorddng to Aviendha, an unskilled questioner was likely to kill the one being put unsuccessfully to the question.
They both looked to Tanna, who smiled, unsuccessfully trying to hold back her tears.
Across the table, Fields tried unsuccessfully to calm him with a placating glance.
Unfortunately, the frigates had been separated from him in the tempest and had not been able to rejoin: they sought him unsuccessfully in the Bay of Naples, where they obtained no tidings of his course: and he sailed without them.
Angelo looked around the crowded dining room and then back at Malachi as he tried unsuccessfully to erase the glint of greed in his eyes.
But Philippa, he contended, absorbed entirely too much television, was too quick to embrace the extremities of human behavior: last winter, for instance, pleading like a teenager for a snowmobile -- unsuccessfully, of course.
Mackintosh resumes his scrutiny of the pub. He wonders whether whores feel the same sense of rejection when they tout unsuccessfully for business.
Another thing that I tried unsuccessfully to do with the quotations was to organize them into a series of categories that would make reading them easier.
Nim Goldman telephoned Nancy Molineaux the next morning, baving tried to reach her, unsuccessfully, the day before.
Axis was all broad smiles as he explained how remarkable the baby was, and only halted when he realised that both Belial and Magariz were staring at him with fixed expressions on their faces that unsuccessfully hid their boredom.
It was notorious that numerous officers in the army and young barristers had undertaken the operation unsuccessfully, and all of them had paid a louis apiece.
When Tiamat's retaliation for Apsu's death was discovered, Anshar sent him on a peace mission to her, but he returned unsuccessfully.