‘‘The other international students don't take me seriously any more,’ he noted unhappily.’
‘But wouldn't they rather see you happily unmarried than unhappily married?’
‘He and Ann, pausing unhappily outside in the hall, tiptoeing on the threadbare rug, could hear nothing from inside.’
‘The gulfs that separate the three families, however, do not prevent their children from intermarrying, for the most part unhappily.’
‘They play urban refugees - an unhappily married man and a coffee-shop girl burdened by her ill father - on the threshold of potential love.’
‘While everyone around him is in a committed relationship, he continues to find himself either unhappily involved or single all together.’
‘He was unhappily married, bored with parish duties and ill-equipped to climb the ecclesiastical greasy pole, but his talents were finally being recognised.’
‘We all make mistakes and if people in everyday life were to take as serious a view of our errors as young cricketers do of umpires' decisions I am afraid we should be somewhat unhappily situated.’
‘The story ended unhappily for all parties concerned: Harris was disgraced and his reputation exploded, but the forgers were also hounded out of Australia.’
‘Depending on your point of view, this is either a dewy-eyed romantic tale about two former lovers or a story about an unhappily married man looking to have sex with an old girlfriend.’
‘Averagely attractive, generally assumed to be gay, though he isn't, he seems unhappily doomed to heterosexual singlehood.’
‘The dog, a small golden retriever, stood unhappily, her head low.’
‘I've felt so alone… Everybody I know is happily single, unhappily single with no options or happily hitched.’
‘I will supply what evidence we have, what reports we have honestly, and then happily leave it or unhappily leave it to the Council.’
‘He lives in the smartest house in the area, and is unhappily married to the beautiful Solema, a teacher of radical views and adulterous instincts.’
‘While many happy human-animal relationships have begun with pet shop animals, there are many others which have ended unhappily.’
‘Professor Albeit is about a professor who wants to be a magician but is unhappily stuck teaching mathematics, till he bumps into a beautiful woman.’
‘They're kind of like an unhappily married couple, actually.’
‘And local authorities conceded unhappily that they were bound by the territory's Basic Law on business matters.’
‘Unfortunately, Langevin was married - unhappily, but nonetheless married.’
1.1sentence adverbUnfortunately.
‘unhappily, such days do not come too often’
‘This, unhappily and unfortunately, is nonsense.’
‘This loss is the more to be lamented, because the heir to his fortunes is unhappily not the heir to his graces.’
‘Happily or unhappily, depending on which way you view it, the blonde in question is likely to be the company's yet-to-be-launched new brew - an oak-aged pale ale.’
‘For all that it kept up with the game by operating a pan-Scotland chain and by selling books on the internet, the firm was in a state of gentle decline which was unhappily all too obvious to its customers.’
‘Gluttony, Orson Welles once said ruefully, is not a secret vice and unhappily the solution to weight loss is also blindingly obvious - whatever you eat, eat less.’
unluckily, sadly, regrettably, unhappily, woefully, lamentably, alas, sad to say, sad to relate
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