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View definitions for unhappily

unhappily

adverb as in regrettably

adverb as in miserably

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And part of me will be watching this one from the sidelines as I unhappily acknowledge that my granddaughter was born with fewer rights today than her mother had 30 years ago.

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His thoughts about the environment, the future, and parenting come into sharp relief through his current job at a restaurant, where he is unhappily employed.

Vance wouldn't even apologize to the unhappily infertile.

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So it will be, unhappily for our rapidly decomposing polity, with this apparent assassination attempt against Donald Trump.

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One function that drinking plays in so many people’s lives — and one reason it’s so heavily associated with important life events, like weddings and wakes — is that it’s a way to turn off the part of our brains that unhappily obsesses over rational calculations, allowing us to feel like we’re living in the moment, even as we’re blaming ourselves for not finding another, healthier way to do so.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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