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It can be used to describe something that lacks support or continuity, such as an argument or a performance. Example: "The unsustained efforts of the team led to a decline in project progress." Alternatives include "unmaintained" or "unsupported."
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unsustained
adjective
Not sustained.
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While well-intentioned, mission work like this hinders real progress in impoverished areas – it's unsustainable, and unsustained – and tends to benefit the missionaries far more than the locals.
"We are concerned by the relatively high level of moves into unsustained jobs," said the committee.
The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself".
Perhaps these activities had drawn distracted, unsustained glances from a passing postal worker or nanny.
These pieces — about his own life, about technology, about travel to places like Japan and Singapore — are mostly slack and unsustained.
In his 2004 introduction to Barry Hannah's story collection "Airships," Richard Ford noted that writers like Donald Barthelme and Gertrude Stein "banged themselves and their sentences against conventional and intransigent American prose syntax, grammar and diction, with often unsustained results — failing most often to express the matter at hand".
Until the recession of 2008-09, the creative community, like the world at large, gorged itself on a diet of unsustained credit, merrily cashing the blank cheques of intellectual bankruptcy.
The women are excluded from peace processes and that is why there's continued to be unsustained conflict prevention.
The women are excluded from peace processes and that is why there continues to be unsustained conflict prevention.
These are the two extremes of a Janus-faced problem: spontaneous but unsustained radicalism on the one side, hypertrophied bureaucratism on the other.
It identified "risky gaps" in provision of specialist domestic abuse units as a result of cutbacks, leaving some with "unsustained workloads" and a lack of specialist support and provision.
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