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unsuccessfully

/ˌʌnsəkˈsɛsfəli/ adverb B2
  1. Not successfully; without success; to no avail.
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Anne laughed and tried unsuccessfully to withdraw her hand.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 328 · C1
They were confined for the evening at different tables; and she had nothing to hope, but that his eyes were so often turned towards her side of the room, as to make him play as unsuccessfully as herself.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 321 · B2

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