How To Use Unhappy In A Sentence

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 Thestar.com - Home Page
You've probably guessed that his Mum was the one who died unhappy and unmourned a couple of years back.
the unhappy truth
She got married when she was twenty and had two children but was increasingly unhappy about the political situation in Southern Rhodesia, particularly the racism of the white ruling class.
She was unhappy there, but loath to leave the security of a job and new friends. Times, Sunday Times

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I slowly sat up and faced my venomous brother and Will who seemed very unhappy.
Some are unhappy at the possibility of a highly geared offer that could damage the value of their investments.
To worry about tomorrow is to be unhappy today.
Did he report you truly, to have used the English word 'unhappy'? The Old Helmet
A study of long-term coupling in which the partners were unhappy, showed that women more than men were likely to suffer from high blood pressure and obesity. Diana Kirschner: Is Marriage Toxic to Women? Musings on Valentine's Day
The will, probated in Sweden, survived the predictable contest from unhappy relatives, but there were other problems.
None of this is an argument for staying in unhappy or abusive relationships. Times, Sunday Times
All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
An egomaniacal celebrity author lives in Paris with his glamorous young second wife and his shy and unhappy grown-up daughter from his first marriage.
As long as you are willing, please let me know what I can do for you. When you are unhappy and want to cry on somebody's shoulder, I will stand before you immediately.
She has every reason to be unhappy after losing her job and her home.
Similarly, Guinness was unhappy with the protracted walk that Lean expected him to make across the parade ground after his release from the hot box.
The unhappy helplessness of the man in the foxskin coat evidently afforded him great pleasure. The Schoolmistress and other stories
There is a high risk in going it alone with unproven technology, and a further reputational risk if it fails to work and punters are left unhappy. Times, Sunday Times
The board is / are unhappy about falling sales.
You're gonna become one unhappy, sore and mundane dude if you wore uncomfy shoes all the time.
No one wins in punitive relationships: parents and children alike feel frustrated, angry and unhappy.
The affixes un- and -less are often used to make negative words, such as 'unhappy' and 'careless'.
The hill-dwellers of Uttaranchal have long felt unhappy under the thumb of the Uttar Pradesh plainsmen.
He knows nothing of it yet. I idolized this poor unhappy child.
Cats miaow when they are unhappy, purr when they are happy.
Madame Olenska has had an unhappy life: that doesn't make her an outcast.
We were unhappy about my wife not being seen by any professional during the first trimester.
A film version of the Carson McCullers play. Frankie Addams, a very boyish articulate 12-year-old girl, is going through an unhappy stage of her life, having been spurned by the neighborhood girls.
You possess too much candour and benevolence not to make allowance, and to forgive the various emotions of my mind, which you have witnessed in this, to me, unhappy conferrence. The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
A peevish child is unhappy and makes others unhappy.
If this does come about, the ensuing paralysis will surely be an apposite commentary on the unhappy state of affairs we have reached where no party seems to deserve to govern us.
If all they've done is suffer an unhappy marriage, we should leave them to their marital misery.
In fact, neither Cathy nor Frank express anything that might resemble an emotion until their bedroom door is locked and the neighbourhood of gossiping gnats is safely locked out of the hidden desperation of their unhappy marriage.
All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Mr Mitchell remained unhappy that these fees had been agreed in advance of the meeting taking place, and requested that this point be minuted.
He said he was thankful to his teachers, who had encouraged him and cheered him up when he was unhappy.
Ingolstadt; and I confess to you, my friend, that when I saw you last autumn so unhappy, flying to solitude, from the society of every creature, Chapter 5
‘It does sound a bit tzigane [French for Roma Gypsies],’ Arbez concedes. ‘You don't know whether it's happy or unhappy.’
As I scurried to retrieve my smalls, the whirr of a dozen camera motor drives signalled that the whole unhappy episode was being captured on film.
Yet it was an unhappy household, made worse by hints of Behrman's mania to come.
Williams is to play an unhappy housewife who decides a lobotomy will cure her depression.
But I now see I've felt unhappy whenever I've been surrounded by silence – as I was as an undergraduate in London – and been content when sound is at hand: such as in my uncle's two-storey house in Kolkata, and in the second-storey flat in Bandra in suburban Mumbai to which my parents moved after my father retired. Amit Chaudhuri's musical circumnavigation
The only people who should be unhappy if shale gas takes off in Britain are the big landowners. Times, Sunday Times
Do you think specific arts events should receive public funding, or are you unhappy about gay sexuality being publicised.
Over to the left I saw an unhappy little urchin, hardly a rag covering his shivering, bleeding body, grovelling piteously in the snow, while his blind and goitrous mother did her best at gathering firewood with a hatchet. Across China on Foot
The pursuit of happiness can itself make us unhappy. Times, Sunday Times
It's got one of the most dauntingly bleak and unhappy endings imaginable.
So the unhappy mother had pierced her breast with a dagger, and, by her side, similarly self-slain, lay the serving woman who had miscounselled her to wrongdoing, yet, as I could quite well comprehend, from motives of sincere affection, to safeguard for her her husband's love and to give her the joy of motherhood for which she craved. Tales of Destiny
I am glad to hear that Peter B is happy with what he call a decent organisation, its nice to know that out of the multitude of unhappy residents that at least a few are getting some service, just check this blog to see how the numbers stack up. Smells like trouble
My personal bodhisattva is unhappy with the size of her breasts Teach Me To Play Basketball
When I knew that I could prevaricate no longer, I spent an unhappy afternoon agonising over which stories to give her to read. LOVE YOU MADLY
And the real reason he was unhappy and unaffectionate was because he was depressed about his job.
Nor are the insights of happiness limited to what is near around you. Unhappy, with your thoughts turned in upon your emotional woes, your vision is cut short as though by a wall. Happy, the wall crumbles.
A disturbed mental state will often result in an unhappy and ineffective athlete which alone usually indicates overtraining.
Told in alternating narratives (with a helpful opening guide to how many different names both women are known by), Bunny ("Faith") Crumpacker tells the story of an unhappy marriage followed by betrayal, a pregnancy of uncertain paternity and the near-numb yet single-minded decision to give up her baby. Nancy Doyle Palmer: Jessica Lost: Adoption and Identity in Modern Times
To support his argument, he quotes opinion polls showing that people in prosperous societies are often unhappy with their lives.
After all, in blogging all families are happy and unhappy in precisely the same way.
Although in other poems Leapor shows that labouring class women can be desperately unhappy in marriage, she is not unequivocal.
It is in his interest to hide unhappy truths about his agency's performance.
Meanwhile, the White House has "broadened" its court search, says a senior official, a sign that Clinton is unhappy with the current list. Mitchell: A Lifestyle Choice?
People in jobs that force them to hide their true selves are likely to become dissatisfied and unhappy, he says. Times, Sunday Times
If for any reason you are unhappy with your proof and sample, any changes can be made or your deposit refunded.
Those scruples and that refinement against which he warned her, she herself thought might be overstrained, and to gratify unnecessary punctilio, the short period of existence be rendered causelessly unhappy. Cecilia
Kate looks really unhappy - I'd better make sure she's all right.
When you're single it's almost preferable to be unhappy in a crowd - at home, ‘human contact’ consists of bumping into the bookcase and getting brained by a falling volume of Tolstoi.
However unhappy the voters are with Labour, they are unlikely to replace it with Labour wannabes.
Interestingly everyone agrees that the one thing keeping unhappy couples together is not the last vestige of love, but money.
‘People are very demoralized and unhappy,’ a former administration official said.
I did not ask him whether he was happy or unhappy - I know he is pretty desolate most of time.
They are too good to go down but it looks like an unhappy new year beckons. The Sun
On second thoughts, neither the apartment owner nor I had any reason to be unhappy.
She is a Muslim woman from Bandra Bazar Road , and she is unhappy , she votes for the Congress , but she finds that it has not helped her much , she has come to meet Rahebar Khan the local corporator, she cant take life anymore, her electric bill has trebled , prices of all essential commodities has skyrocketed and she is stuck in a groove of discontent. Archive 2009-08-01
Both partners of the marriage wound up unhappy.
The most unhappy people are the ones who always undervalue what they have.
What we are unhappy with is the media's idea that this is a game to be played, and every burp from a politician is not a new story. CNN Poll: President's approval on health care under 50 percent
He is badly down; something unhappy must have happened to him.
All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
I would be very unhappy if I was to live my life being an engineer, but I stuck it out because I didn't want to let my parents down.
Does he get depressed or unhappy? Times, Sunday Times
The unhappy wife of Dr. Zabriskie sank , mortally wounded, to the ground.
It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I would be unhappy; and I don't think I'll be loaning him the lown mower again. Archive 2005-08-01
His expression shows how unhappy he is.
I suspect he isn't altogether unhappy about my absence.
Her unhappy childhood was the origin of her problems later in life.
He has been unhappy at being axed, subbed and played out of position. The Sun
She must be very unhappy to play fast and loose with the feelings of other people like that - especially those so close to her. The Sun
All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
'O Edgar!' exclaimed Camilla, stopping the reading, and putting her hand, as in benediction, upon the paper, 'do you deign to talk of disappointment? do you condescend to intimate you are unhappy? Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
Harris and Snelling were placed under keepers, who amused themselves by tormenting their unhappy prisoners in various ways; such as pricking them with their knives, cutting off small pieces of their ears and fingers, and pulling out clumps of their hair. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2
Some patients and carers were also unhappy about what they saw as sub-optimal care or different services passing the buck.
It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
How I pity the unhappy wretches who are doomed to dwell in such a place!
But many in the licensed trade are unhappy about the latest attempt to curb binge drinking.
The research team identified three distinct family profiles-one happy, termed cohesive, and two unhappy, termed disengaged and enmeshed. The Hindu - Home
We are told often how close to genius his work is, how unhappy he is, and how remorseful.
The driver, as it happened, was a captain of the carabineros, and he was very unhappy with the traffic backup.
The results showed that the women in unhappy relationships and the women who remained emotionally hung up on their ex-husbands had decidedly weaker immune responses than the women who were in happier relationships (or were happily out of them). Is There a Health Advantage to Being Married? | Impact Lab
Ferguson was unhappy and it showed.
It is not amiss to consider this spell of potency, this abracadabra, that is hung about the necks of the unhappy, not to heal, but to communicate disease. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)
the unhappy memories of her childhood receded as she grew older
The committee is reportedly unhappy about the discrepancy in numbers.
Colin studied the dark circles under her eyes and the unhappy expression on her face, her skin was olive and smooth.
When you are light-hearted your body manufactures different chemicals inside you than when you are unhappy. Times, Sunday Times
A young man looks back over his unhappy marriage and struggles to come to terms with his wife's suicide.
Well, if I'm trying to climb back on the blogging wagon, so to speak, I suppose I could do a lot worse than talk about a meeting - maybe it would be more accurate to say 'altercation' - that I had on the job with an angry, unhappy woman. This Side of Glory
Her life was blighted by an unhappy marriage.
The union is unhappy with this year's pay award.
In flashbacks he is hampered with the unhappy task of being the innocent amid these connivers, but a stronger actor might have been able to make naïveté more interesting.
One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. Dale Carnegie
Extraordinary in its detail—and in its close-up pictures of this nimble army of foragers who have, it appears, settled on Toronto as a favorite destination—the film fascinates with its display of the dauntlessness of the creatures, about which many unhappy householders need no instruction, and their capacity to adapt. A Musical for Marilyn Monroe
In waking life, of course, you were not part of the decisions about promotion and firing in your office, but still you feel guilty about getting ahead under such unhappy and unfair circumstances.
I've tried a number of ways to cook beans mostly canellini, and I've often been unhappy with the results. Week 2 - Friday - How to cook beans - 3 time-saving techniques :: Rebecca Blood
And the real reason he was unhappy and unaffectionate was because he was depressed about his job.
Several unhappy attempts at solo careers later, the hatchet has finally been buried, for a second album.
Investors were unhappy about the risk.
Frequently, this becomes the unhappy process of body retrieval. Times, Sunday Times
He is badly down; something unhappy must have happened to him.
Nor are the insights of happiness limited to what is near around you. Unhappy, with your thoughts turned in upon your emotional woes, your vision is cut short as though by a wall. Happy, the wall crumbles.
I'm still very unhappy about the situation and I'm making more of an effort to find a new job.
You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.
Let me summarize, Dr Diane: the years that followed were unhappy. A MEANS TO EVIL
She's always snivelling about her unhappy childhood.
Unhappy and unnerved she hears the scratching, growling and barking of battle going on outside.
Keith Bachman, an analyst with BMO Capital Markets, said the company might offer refunds to unhappy customers.
Much of the tragedy of the story can be traced to the unhappy childhood of Luke and Leia; with their mother dead, Luke has no focus for his sexual desires during the phallic stage of his development.
If, finally, you see him lamenting, complaining, unhappy, call him a slave though he wears a praetexta. The Discourses of Epictetus
He had the effrontery to suggest that she enjoyed being unhappy.
Unhappy at her placing, she returned to the stage and gestured impolitely at the judges, thus receiving a two-year suspension.
An unhappy family life may inhibit children's learning.
Happy the author whose earliest works are read and understood by the lustre thrown back upon them from his latest! for then we receive the impression of continuity and cumulation of power, of peculiarity deepening to individuality, of promise more than justified in the keeping: unhappy, whose autumn shows only the aftermath and rowen of an earlier harvest, whose would-be replenishments are but thin dilutions of his fame! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860
On every page there are unhappy husbands, bewildered boyfriends, disappointed lovers and delusional relatives.
Grijalva Unhappy:"Nickel and diming our way to economic recovery, especially on the backs of working Americans who did nothing to cause our economic problems, is not the right way to go," Progressive Caucus Co-chair Raul Grijalva D-Ariz. said. HUFFPOST HILL - Rep. Jean Schmidt Under Investigation
It makes her look like a rather dowdy and unhappy provincial lady mayoress. Times, Sunday Times
Nor are the insights of happiness limited to what is near around you. Unhappy, with your thoughts turned in upon your emotional woes, your vision is cut short as though by a wall. Happy(Sentence dictionary), the wall crumbles.
Colonel Cathcart was a slick, successful , slipshod, unhappy man of thirty - six .
Does he get depressed or unhappy? Times, Sunday Times
He was equally unhappy with the alternative.
None of this is an argument for staying in unhappy or abusive relationships. Times, Sunday Times
I am so miserable and unhappy. Times, Sunday Times
In nondramatic poetry, she suggests, trochaic tetrameter seems associated with happy love and iambic tetrameter with unhappy love. The Times Literary Supplement
She is quick to point out that her childhood was not unhappy, just unsettled.
Thomas Hudson was unhappy as soon as the boys were gone.
I should think you would be very unhappy with that shawl.
The ego has awaked to its constant need to feel unsatisfied, discontented, unhappy and finding fault. Peter Baksa: Ego: A Bad Word?
Being tired and unhappy puts years on you.
I thought of my father's unhappy boyhood.
He sees you stressed and unhappy, cannot think how to make you feel better and so is feeling useless. The Sun
But beneath the smile, the elegantly coiffed hair and the expensive Harvey Nichols clothes she was desperately unhappy.
He kept waking up unhappy while my husband and I were snuggled under the duvet. Times, Sunday Times
Geoffrey K. Pullum’s takedown in the April 17 Chronicle of Higher Education called it “the overopinionated and underinformed little book that put so many people in [an] unhappy state of grammatical angst.” Books: Culture and Celebrity
The result left Eddie Pollock, the Stirling coach, in a very unhappy frame of mind - so much so that his immediate post-match response was unprintable.
Obama later called the couple's entry a "screwup," telling CBS television's "60 Minutes" last month that he was "unhappy with everybody who was involved in the process. Raw Story
It was a lonely and unhappy time. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
Pondering the nature of addiction, which he's flirted with and which now has Midge firmly in its icy grip, seeing its rather unaesthetic manifestation before him, he writes about tobacco, a product that "never improves, causes illness, and makes people unhappy. William Bradley: Mad Men : Nothing Like a Little Lemonade to Rinse the Smoke From One's Eyes
Part of the answer to that question lies in the performer's ubiquitous unhappy childhood. Times, Sunday Times
Whiling away the insomniac hours in his luxury hotel's 24-hour bar, he meets Scarlett Johansson, a young woman deeply unhappy in her marriage.
The unhappy woman had hidden the Host in her veil after receiving.
I was desperately unhappy, almost suicidal.
The union is unhappy with this year's pay award.
I was not altogether unhappy at the Publicity Printers during those early pioneer days.
I suspect he isn't altogether unhappy about my absence.
We are happy, and contented: and if we change, we shall be discontented and unhappy, as so many of what they call our betters are. Tales and Novels — Volume 02
However, as he studied the mechanical philosophy of Descartes he became unhappy with it.
In truth, we were both unhappy.
The customer would probably be unhappy if the project were completed well ahead of time at the expense of some key quality aspect.
But amidst the mastication of his third or fourth mouthful, Paul felt his unhappy stomach take a still unhappier turn.
The solitary candle burning on the table threw a faint light on her face, yet it was clear that she was very unhappy.
The old couple dragged on an unhappy existence for many years.
We felt entirely unhappy with the whole situation.
Clearly, members were unhappy with the cumbrous nature of the rulemaking process.
She be-knaved, be-rascalled, be-rogued the unhappy hero, who stood silent, confounded with astonishment, but more with shame and indignation, at being thus outwitted and overreached. The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
By the time she finished the sentence, all of the neighbors had gone, except the beagle owner, unhappy at the other end of the leash. THE VENDETTA DEFENCE
To worry about tomorrow is to be unhappy today.
He had an unhappy marriage with an older woman.
Their 500-year history of miscegenation was an unhappy one, the result of European colonisation, exploitation of the native Amerindian population and a long history of African slavery.
For what can be more unhappy, than for a Man, devested of Senatorian Honours, to be still confin'd to Fatigue and Trouble? Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books: Volume 1, Books 1-6
The French have largely retained their ancient sober habit (save for the unhappy introduction of the afternoon "aperitif"), but the English have shown a tendency to abandon their intemperance of excess in favour of an opposed intemperance, and instead of drinking till they fall under the table have sometimes developed a passion for not drinking at all. Impressions and Comments
With so many unhappy people, it sometimes led to violence. The Sun
Why dwell on something that makes you unhappy? Times, Sunday Times
Many locals were unhappy at not getting an invitation.
Also, a great nation having made up its mind that hanging is quite the wholesomest process for its homicides in general, can yet with mercy distinguish between the degrees of guilt in homicides; and does not yelp like a pack of frost-pinched wolf-cubs on the blood-track of an unhappy crazed boy, or gray-haired clodpate Othello, "perplexed i 'the extreme," at the very moment that it is sending a Minister of the Crown to make polite speeches to a man who is bayoneting young girls in their father's sight, and killing noble youths in cool blood, faster than a country butcher kills lambs in spring. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
A poor unhappy fool that can not face life's sternness, that is crying out to escape his duty! The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow
In the Rabourdin bureau was a clerk who played the man of courage and audacity, professed the opinions of the Left centre, and rebelled against the tyrannies of Baudoyer as exercised upon what he called the unhappy slaves of that office. Bureaucracy
Any unhappy is a waste of time.
Build on the qualities you are satisfied with and work to change those you are unhappy with.
She is very unhappy but cannot yet explain her volatile moods. Times, Sunday Times
But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man. Bret Easton Ellis: 'So you're a misogynist, a racist – so what? Does it make your art less interesting?'
The city was soaked throughout the night and well into yesterday morning by torrential rain and the forecast promised more of the same - unhappy portents prevailed. Times, Sunday Times
Â The rebooted Invisible Kid was last seen with his teammates, drifting off into space, unbound from time, but still together … Â Immediately afterwards, we are introduced to a new iteration of the 30th century, and the first character that we meet is young Lyle Norg, whose parents are very unhappy that he seems to share a predilection with many kids his age: hero worship of the “youth group” known as the Legion. Hero History: Invisible Kid | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
They are too good to go down but it looks like an unhappy new year beckons. The Sun
My heart bled for the poor unhappy children.
With a last glance at the unhappy man to whom I had grown attached in a way during our time of joint captivity and trial, I took the arm of the old Hottentot, or rather leant upon his shoulder, for at first I felt too weak to walk by myself, and picked my path with him through the stones and skeletons of elephants across the plateau eastwards, that is, away from the lake. The Ivory Child
Speaking about the results, Professor Bellis said, "Our study identifies that the children who drink and are sexually active are also more likely to be unhappy with their school and home lives.
The customer would probably be unhappy if the project were completed well ahead of time at the expense of some key quality aspect.
It is a curious paradox that professional comedians often have unhappy personal lives.
By his own account he had an unhappy childhood.
When these unhappy men began thus to stir, they of London, except such as were of their band, were greatly affrayed. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
In recent years, the council has been blasted with icy criticisms from residents unhappy with the authority's winter road policies.

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