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unhappily

 adverb
     
un‧hap‧pi‧ly
1 in a way that shows you are not happy:
'I'm not sure what to do,' Seb admitted unhappily.
2 [sentence adverb] old-fashioned used when you are mentioning a fact that you wish were not true [= unfortunately]:
Unhappily, she was not able to complete the course.
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