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UNLUCKILY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
By bad luck
Example:
alas, I cannot stay
Synonyms:
alas; regrettably; unfortunately; unluckily
Classified under:
Antonym:
luckily (by good fortune)
Pertainym:
unlucky (marked by or promising bad fortune)
Context examples:
Her three notes—unluckily they were all in my pocketbook, or I should have denied their existence, and hoarded them for ever—I was forced to put them up, and could not even kiss them.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The little man had been sitting there fishing, and unluckily the wind had tangled up his beard with the fishing-line; a moment later a big fish made a bite and the feeble creature had not strength to pull it out; the fish kept the upper hand and pulled the dwarf towards him.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
But I could have easily vindicated humankind from the imputation of singularity upon the last article, if there had been any swine in that country (as unluckily for me there were not), which, although it may be a sweeter quadruped than a Yahoo, cannot, I humbly conceive, in justice, pretend to more cleanliness; and so his honour himself must have owned, if he had seen their filthy way of feeding, and their custom of wallowing and sleeping in the mud.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
But unluckily that iron gate, that ha-ha, give me a feeling of restraint and hardship.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She had been watching him the last hour, she said, as he walked up and down the street, and had Mr. Wickham appeared, Kitty and Lydia would certainly have continued the occupation, but unluckily no one passed windows now except a few of the officers, who, in comparison with the stranger, were become stupid, disagreeable fellows.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I offered immediately, as soon as my mother related the affair to me, to talk to him myself, and dissuade him from the match; but it was too late THEN, I found, to do any thing, for unluckily, I was not in the way at first, and knew nothing of it till after the breach had taken place, when it was not for me, you know, to interfere.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
No; but they were to be put into the spare room to dry; and, unluckily, Fanny forgot to lock the door of the room and bring away the key, so she was obliged to go again.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
To anything like a permanence of abode, or limitation of society, Henry Crawford had, unluckily, a great dislike: he could not accommodate his sister in an article of such importance; but he escorted her, with the utmost kindness, into Northamptonshire, and as readily engaged to fetch her away again, at half an hour's notice, whenever she were weary of the place.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
