Abortive
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He amused the engineer by the history of the single match, then his
abortive
attempt to procure fire in the savages' way.
More example sentences with word abortive
In one dreadfully over long sequence and injured sailor on a ship describes an
abortive
trip to 'Fog Island', whatever that is!
This movie is an abortive, stillborn attempt to stitch together several bad movies and make some sort of extra-bad movie.
In a pivotal scene she intervenes to stop a rape and a moron cop throws HER in jail, so after a couple cool shower scenes and some
abortive
prison-dyke seduction she has to take the law into her own hands blah blah blah.
To compound things the exercise was repeated in Martin's unfunny attempt to be Peter Seller's Inspector Clouseau, another
abortive
attempt, in my opinion, to rekindle a demonstrably unfunny career.
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