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Webster 1828 Edition


Unhappily

UNHAP'PILY

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adv.
Unfortunately; miserably; calamitously.

Definition 2024


unhappily

unhappily

English

Adverb

unhappily (comparative more unhappily, superlative most unhappily)

  1. Unfortunately; regrettably.
    • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 76:
      Theodore Roosevelt […] added, perhaps unhappily, that he believed the US administration in the Philippines could learn a lot form the Austrian example.
  2. Through evil fate or chance; wretchedly.
  3. Without happiness; sadly.

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