Synonyms:
sadly, unhappily
Meaning: in an unfortunate way; "sadly he died before he could see his grandchild"
Synonyms:
unhappily
Meaning: in an unpleasant way; "they were unhappily married"
Usage examples
"How are you going to end it--happily or unhappily?"
Brion looked unhappily at the slanting and broken ramp, then cupped his hands and shouted loudly.
Your portion is unhappily so small that it will in all likelihood undo the effects of your loveliness and amiable qualifications.
The widow looked unhappily in her daughter's face, distressed between her desire that Anne should encourage Festus, and her wish to consult Anne's own feelings.
Unhappily throughout a large part of Scotland the clergy of the Established Church were, to use the phrase then common, rabbled. The morning of Christmas day was fixed for the commencement of these outrages.
Mr. Wickfield, being so weak and helpless in his hands as to pay you, afterwards, several sums of interest on a pretended principal which he knew did not exist, made himself, unhappily, a party to the fraud.'
You will hear sermons and read newspaper editorials about the "divorce evil," and you will find that to the preacher or editor this "evil" consists of the fact that more and more people are refusing to stay unhappily married.
In those countries in which unhappily irreligion and democracy coexist, the most important duty of philosophers and of those in power is to be always striving to place the objects of human actions far beyond man's immediate range.