unfortunately

Adverb

Meaning

by bad luck

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Examples

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid. Salvador Dalí

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance. Bertrand Russell

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood. Wallace Stevens

If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only. Arabic Proverb

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