The phrase "and abortive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has failed to produce the desired result or outcome.
Example: "The project was ambitious, but ultimately it was deemed and abortive, leading to its cancellation."
Alternatives: "and unsuccessful" or "and fruitless".
But they endured a number of separations and abortive divorce filings before separating permanently in 2010.
I write short stories and abortive attempts at novels, and a blog about my life in Brazil.
(c) Quantification of productive and abortive invasions in the parental Δku80 and inducible knockdown AMA1 cell lines treated with ±ATc.
(f) Quantification of productive and abortive invasions in Δku80 line incubated with ±5 μM synthetic TgRON2 peptide (TgRON2sp).
But if you just think about it, since 1984, weve been living in a series of revolutions and abortive revolutions.
151, 209 (obscene and immoral articles and literature, contraceptive and abortive materials, lottery tickets); Act of March 3, 1899, 30 Stat.
Part Two picks Che up seven years later, his ruthless years as a politician in Cuba and abortive African adventures behind him.
It has an appalling AIDS problem, a history of attempted secession and abortive coups, and an economy that has stagnated since independence.
Undergraduates had been recruited at short notice to sit at the empty drawing boards, tracing already constructed and abortive work, in order to impress upon the visiting councillors how busy the practice was.
That is the multiplier effect of what we do". When Furse took on the chief executive role eight years ago, the exchange was recovering from a long and abortive merger attempt with the main German stock exchange.
Having been pigeonholed in the cultish, indie sector, MacLachlan's career has comprised a series of interesting but low-profile movies (Mike Figgis's One Night Stand, Sandra Goldbacher's current Me Without You) and abortive blockbusters (Joe Ezsterhas's risible Showgirls).
