"abortive at" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is unsuccessful or unsuccessful in achieving its intended goal. Example: The company's efforts were abortive at best, as their new product failed to generate any significant sales.
A woman found the material but her attempts to return them to HSV proved abortive at first, as neither the club nor Knäbel realised that a rucksack containing said contents had actually gone missing.
Microsoft, in the pre-iPad era, made the call that touch was next and that its core platform would support it properly; touch in Windows 7 was abortive at best.
Yet it has always been troubled by brutal beatdowns and institutionalized corruption, and most reform efforts have been abortive, at best.
The Jewish Romanian writer Norman Manea made his first, abortive attempt at emigration at the age of four, when he ran away from home.
By Larissa MacFarquhar The Jewish Romanian writer Norman Manea made his first, abortive attempt at emigration at the age of four, when he ran away from home.
After several abortive attempts at a sequel at Lucasarts, he brought the characters to Telltale Games and began to develop sequels there, as had happened with Monkey Island.
For instance, there have been some abortive attempts at connected devices like Android at Home in the past.
What's not typical is that the speaker is Dustin Hoffman, directing his first feature film at 74, unless you count an abortive crack at "Straight Time" (1978).
Sadly, it will be a testament to what they could have done and what they might have been.' The Libertines are believed to be in despair after wasting money on Doherty's treatments in recent weeks, including an abortive stay at The Priory in London and at a clinic in France.
After several more abortive plans at amalgamation, where the Stainforth and Keadby pulled out at the last minute, agreement was finally reached, and the Don Navigation took control of the canal on 1 January 1849.
After an abortive landing at Throg's Neck, he landed troops with some resistance at Pell's Point on October 18 to begin an encircling maneuver that was intended to trap Washington's army between that force, his troops in Manhattan, and the Hudson River, which was dominated by warships of the Royal Navy.
