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adjective

Unhappy adj.

Not happy or fortunate; unfortunate; unlucky; as, affairs have taken an unhappy turn.

In a degree miserable or wretched; not happy; sad; sorrowful; as, children render their parents unhappy by misconduct.

Marked by infelicity; evil; calamitous; as, an unhappy day. "The unhappy morn."

Mischievous; wanton; wicked. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Unhappy" Quotes from Famous Books

... the unhappy Britons invited their fate. Like their cousins, the Gauls, they invited the Teutons from across the sea to come to their rescue, and with result ...

— The Evolution of an Empire • Mary Parmele

... Graham added quickly: "I don't mean that you have not charming manners, little Betty, as charming as any in the world aside from your mother's. And personally I have not seen a prettier girl in Washington or elsewhere. But if you really are unhappy among strangers and would like to go to France with your old friends to help with the work over there, why, I will try to see how matters can be arranged. I don't think I would speak of your idea to your mother, not just at present, as there is ...

— The Campfire Girls on the Field of Honor • Margaret Vandercook

... particular trouble since his wife's death, but his life had been unhappy. He had no friends, much as he longed for friendship, and he could not give any reasons for his failure. He saw other persons more successful, but he remained solitary. Their needs were not so great as his, for ...

— Clara Hopgood • Mark Rutherford

... race against time is most graphically described. After great exertions the ship bearing the reprieve arrived just in time to save Mytilene. This act of mercy stands in sinister contrast with the treatment the unhappy Plataeans received from the liberators of Greece. The citizens were captured, Athens having strangely abandoned them in spite of her promise to help. They were allowed to commemorate their services to Greece, appealing in a most moving ...

— Authors of Greece • T. W. Lumb

... that a great majority of the nation desire a change in the administration; and that it will be difficult for party organization or party denunciation to suppress the effective utterance of that general wish. There are unhappy differences, it is true, about the fit person to be successor to the present incumbent in the chief magistracy; and it is possible that this disunion may, in the end, defeat the will of the majority. But so far as we agree together, let us act together. Wherever our ...

— The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster • Daniel Webster

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