UNLUCKILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unluckily mean? 

• UNLUCKILY (adverb)
  The adverb UNLUCKILY has 1 sense:

1. by bad luck

  Familiarity information: UNLUCKILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNLUCKILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

By bad luck

Synonyms:

alas; regrettably; unfortunately; unluckily

Context example:

alas, I cannot stay

Antonym:

luckily (by good fortune)

Pertainym:

unlucky (marked by or promising bad fortune)

 Context examples 

I wanted to keep it from Jane's knowledge; but, unluckily, I had mentioned it before I was aware.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I should be but too happy in taking the part, if it were possible, cried Tom; but, unluckily, the Butler and Anhalt are in together.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

However, I dare say we should have seen a great deal of him in Somersetshire, if it had not happened very unluckily that we should never have been in the country together.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Bennet had designed to keep the two Netherfield gentlemen to supper; but their carriage was unluckily ordered before any of the others, and she had no opportunity of detaining them.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

So at last they set out together, and took with them their little child; and she chose a large hall with thick walls for him to sit in while the wedding-torches were lighted; but, unluckily, no one saw that there was a crack in the door.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

They were the first I had ever beheld, and I should have been curious enough to dissect one of them, if I had had proper instruments, which I unluckily left behind me in the ship, although, indeed, the sight was so nauseous, that it perfectly turned my stomach.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But unluckily the Varens, six months before, had given me this filette Adele, who, she affirmed, was my daughter; and perhaps she may be, though I see no proofs of such grim paternity written in her countenance: Pilot is more like me than she.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We had only one check to our pleasure, and that happened a little while before I took my leave, when, Miss Mills chancing to make some allusion to tomorrow morning, I unluckily let out that, being obliged to exert myself now, I got up at five o'clock.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

No, you never can; and, unluckily, it is out of distance for a ride.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But, unluckily for her ladyship, its effect had been exactly contrariwise.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)