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adverb
Date: 14th century
1. unfortunately 2 <unhappily, medicine has not yet found a cure — Diana Trilling> 2. in an unhappy manner ; without pleasure <practiced law unhappily for a few years>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
unhappily
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