Usually means: In a sad, discontented manner.
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  1. unhappily: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unhappily: Merriam-Webster
  3. unhappily: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unhappily: Collins English Dictionary
  5. unhappily: Vocabulary.com
  6. Unhappily, unhappily: Wordnik
  7. unhappily: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. unhappily: Wiktionary
  9. unhappily: Dictionary.com
  10. unhappily: Rhymezone
  11. unhappily: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. unhappily: FreeDictionary.org
  13. unhappily: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. unhappily: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. unhappily: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (unhappily)

▸ adverb:  Unfortunately; regrettably.
▸ adverb:  Through evil fate or chance; wretchedly.
▸ adverb:  Without happiness; sadly.

Similar:
sadly, unfelicitously, unhopefully, unregretfully, regretfully, sad to say, unthankfully, lamentably, regrettingly, infelicitously, more...

Types:
miserably, unpleasantly, displeasingly, objectionably, unacceptably, more...

Phrases:
Unhappily Ever After, broods unhappily, walk unhappily, said unhappily, unhappily oblige, more...

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Similar:
sadly, unfelicitously, unhopefully, unregretfully, regretfully, sad to say, unthankfully, lamentably, regrettingly, infelicitously, more...

Types:
miserably, unpleasantly, displeasingly, objectionably, unacceptably, more...

Phrases:
Unhappily Ever After, broods unhappily, walk unhappily, said unhappily, unhappily oblige, unhappily walk, looked unhappily, more...

Colors:
    gray,     black,     dark blue,     olive,     maroon, more...



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