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UNHAPPILY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In an unfortunate way
Example:
sadly he died before he could see his grandchild
Synonyms:
sadly; unhappily
Classified under:
Sense 2
Meaning:
In an unpleasant way
Example:
they were unhappily married
Classified under:
Antonym:
happily (in a joyous manner)
Pertainym:
unhappy (causing discomfort)
Context examples:
I could not forbear admiring at these odd appearances, both in town and country; and I made bold to desire my conductor, that he would be pleased to explain to me, what could be meant by so many busy heads, hands, and faces, both in the streets and the fields, because I did not discover any good effects they produced; but, on the contrary, I never knew a soil so unhappily cultivated, houses so ill contrived and so ruinous, or a people whose countenances and habit expressed so much misery and want.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal Green, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
My daughter Dora having, unhappily, no mother, Miss Murdstone is obliging enough to become her companion and protector.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Your portion is unhappily so small that it will in all likelihood undo the effects of your loveliness and amiable qualifications.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
You have done something to mitigate my feelings for the loathsome profession to which you unhappily belong.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In that case, your Grace, since you have yourself stated that any unhappiness in your married life was caused by his presence I would suggest that you make such amends as you can to the Duchess, and that you try to resume those relations which have been so unhappily interrupted.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Fanny, with all her faults of ignorance and timidity, was fixed at Mansfield Park, and learning to transfer in its favour much of her attachment to her former home, grew up there not unhappily among her cousins.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Mr. Wickfield, being so weak and helpless in his hands as to pay you, afterwards, several sums of interest on a pretended principal which he knew did not exist, made himself, unhappily, a party to the fraud.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
About a year ago, she was taken from school, and an establishment formed for her in London; and last summer she went with the lady who presided over it, to Ramsgate; and thither also went Mr. Wickham, undoubtedly by design; for there proved to have been a prior acquaintance between him and Mrs. Younge, in whose character we were most unhappily deceived; and by her connivance and aid, he so far recommended himself to Georgiana, whose affectionate heart retained a strong impression of his kindness to her as a child, that she was persuaded to believe herself in love, and to consent to an elopement.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
When Klipspringer had played "The Love Nest" he turned around on the bench and searched unhappily for Gatsby in the gloom.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
