Die woord "onsuksesvol" is 'n bywoord wat 'n aksie of poging beskryf wat nie die gewenste uitkoms bereik het nie of nie suksesvol was nie. Dit dui op 'n gebrek aan sukses of mislukking in die spesifieke konteks wat dit gebruik word.
1. Your father tried unsuccessfully to remove her as department chair.
2. He got out of his truck and threw his arms around me, holding me tight while I tried, unsuccessfully, not to cry.
3. Veridian grinned, and Jinx tried unsuccessfully to hide her smile.
4. She coughed and tried unsuccessfully to fan the smoke away.
5. Calder spent the rest of the afternoon unsuccessfully attempting to get an audience with the King.
6. The joy had leaked from the big Ifrit as the years of the hunt dragged on unsuccessfully.
7. A few minutes earlier, it had occupied the middle seat next to him and accidentally sat on one of the two of his seat belt straps, something that Babis only real-ised when he unsuccessfully attempted to fasten his.
8. She remembered a rusty nail she had unsuccessfully tried to pull out of the wall and used it to pierce a hole in the cloth, near the seam.
9. Had he ever lost his heart so much to something, had he ever loved any person thus, thus blindly, thus sufferingly, thus unsuccessfully, and yet thus happily?
10. The mother in the second cart screamed, while her husband tried unsuccessfully to turn his horse around.