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Discover LudwigThe phrase "rather unsuccessful" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe something that has not been completely unsuccessful, but has not been very successful either. Example: The company's new marketing strategy was rather unsuccessful in increasing sales.
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A number of rather unsuccessful ventures followed.
Still, there were many technical difficulties with this and it was rather unsuccessful.
From 1815 to 1837 he maintained a rather unsuccessful studio in New York City.
He wrote rather unsuccessful novels and plenty of reviews, as well as his many works on the English language.
Although batch operation was rather unsuccessful due to elutriation of the salt during heat-up, simulated continuous operation gave high conversion rates.
Whereas the generation of tissues with greater complexity and the development of functional vascular networks in complex bioartificial tissues has been rather unsuccessful.
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That was the one where Melissa Cohen - after informing all the other contestants of her strong skills in this area - proceeded to embark on a rather cringeworthy unsuccessful pitch to Debenhams.
Put to the extreme: the wish for more information indicates that information provision has been successful, rather than unsuccessful.
Finally, to ensure that any group differences were in the context of successful rather than unsuccessful performance, our analysis identified activation for correct trials only and excluded activation related to errors.
Challenge unsuccessful, rather like Sharapova's second serve at this stage.
Still, I'd rather endure an unsuccessful new piece than a dreary run-through of standard repertory.
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