unhappy
adjective
sad; miserable; wretched.
unhappily
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a word derived from
unhappy.
Example Sentences
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As one dinner began, my family unhappily discovered I’d poked a hole in the crust of a loaf of bread and hollowed out its soft insides for my own enjoyment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
For readers familiar with Sir Salman's Midnight's Children, for which he won the Booker Prize, this upcoming work revisits the Bombay neighbourhood of that book, where "a magical musician is unhappily married to a multibillionaire".
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2025
Vance wouldn't even apologize to the unhappily infertile.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2024
On an afternoon in late January, inside the unmarked door at Freedom Home, Favor was dealing unhappily with the thing that most annoyed him: in his words, “the humans.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2024
The three living cows were staggering around in the deep snow and bawling unhappily.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
