unhappily

CEFRB1

/ʌnˈhæpɪli/

adverb

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Due to differing opinions between the two, they argued angrily, before leaving unhappily.
You doubtless mean well; but your ideas are unhappily mistaken.

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Theodore Roosevelt […] added, perhaps unhappily, that he believed the US administration in the Philippines could learn a lot from the Austrian example.

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Theodore Roosevelt […] added, perhaps unhappily, that he believed the US administration in the Philippines could learn a lot from the Austrian example.
2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 76
The line to Dunières consists of a series of breakneck descents almost invariably ended by a violent curve and followed immediately by a panting climb, on which the engine barked thunderously but failed unhappily to maintain its booked speed of 13 m.p.h.
1961 November 26, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 668

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From Middle English onhappily, unhappili, unhappily, unhappyly; equivalent to un- + happily or unhappy + -ly.