Difference between unhappy and unhappily
Definitions
adjective
- marked by or producing unhappiness
- generalized feeling of distress
- causing discomfort
- experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent
Examples
Canadians were unhappy with so-called intrusive questions, the aggravation of filling it out and even a few were convinced the census was part of a government plot, according to
You've probably guessed that his Mum was the one who died unhappy and unmourned a couple of years back.
the unhappy truth
Definitions
adverb
- in an unfortunate way
- in an unpleasant way
Examples
They play urban refugees - an unhappily married man and a coffee-shop girl burdened by her ill father - on the threshold of potential love.
However, even the wisdom of a political boss is not infallible, and despite the succulent graces of the barbecue numbers of the ascetic and jeans-clad elder worthies, though fed to repletion, collogued unhappily together among the ox-teams and canvas-hooded wagons on the slope, commenting sourly on the frivolity of the dance.
Unhappily, we fear that such a consummation is still far distant.
