nonachievement
nonaccomplishment
failure
disappointment
piffle
dashing hopes
implementation
maneuver
execution
manoeuver
manoeuvre
carrying out
goal
undoing
doingness
breach
committing
go after
do-nothing
attainment
hypothetical imperative
rebelliousness
measure
unintended consequence
endeavoring
insubordination
enabling
game
outperformance
inducement
noncommission
terminus ad quem
self-defeating
Hollywooding
inducing
conquest
nomination
poising
stultification
disservice
perpetrate
constipation
plighting
commit
deadening
mispromotion
pull
run around like a chicken with its head cut off
ill turn
appropriation
ill service
impairment
move
actlessness
plan
in one's sights
indelicacy
advancement
progress
add
mug's game
advance
obscurantism
actionness
procession
foiling
progression
forward motion
frustration
thwarting
futility
onward motion
permitting
sponsion
infract
offend
accomplishment
go against
violate
break
aiming
achievement
botch
funsies
transgress
debarment
deed
devisal
success
engendering
put a gun to someone's head
offering
blind alley
endeavor
idea
contrivance

English words for 'an act that does not achieve its intended goal'

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