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unsadly

unsadly adverb: not sadly.

Adverb

unsadly (comparative more unsadly, superlative most unsadly)

  1. Not sadly.
    • A glove was suspended / Spacious and wondrous, in art-fetters fastened, / Which was fashioned entirely by touch of the craftman / From the dragon’s skin by the devil’s devices: / He down in its depths would do me unsadly / One among many, deed-doer raging, / Though sinless he saw me; not so could...1893, “XXX. Beowulf Narrates His Adventures to Higelac”, in Jno: Lesslie Hall, transl., Beowulf, an Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem, translated from the Heyne-Socin text, Boston, U.S.A.: D. C. Heath & Co....
    • Of course she had wept for Miguel Cota; but then, life must go on, always on, Maria told herself not unsadly.1935, Arthur Henry Gooden, Valley of the Kings, A. L. Burt Company, page 254

Examples of unsadly in a sentence

  • Moseby recalled the colours of their jerseys and sipped his stout, thinking unsadly on the fate of Scottish football.1965, Alan Sharp, A Green Tree in Gedde, The New American Library, page 176:
  • “This,” he told Grencer not unsadly, “will be the year’s most expensive production with the exception of Ben Hur.”1978, Stuart Kaminsky, John Huston, Maker of Magic, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 123:
  • I was addressed, in a style of solicitude, as one who was going poetically wrong; and I went my way, not unsadly, imagining only an older poet’s sober differing with me in my ideas as to my way.1993, Carolina Quarterly, page 75:
  • He’s sung his sad song unsadly, and it hasn’t done him a damn bit of good.2004, Michaelangelo Matos, Sign ‘O’ the Times, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN:

Forms of unsadly

comparativemore unsadly
superlativemost unsadly

Origin of unsadly

From un- + sadly.

Questions about unsadly

What does unsadly mean?
Unsadly means not sadly.
How do you use unsadly in a sentence?
Moseby recalled the colours of their jerseys and sipped his stout, thinking unsadly on the fate of Scottish football.
What part of speech is unsadly?
Unsadly is an adverb.

Words near unsadly in the dictionary

  1. unsaddles
  2. unsaddling
  3. unsaddlings
  4. unsadistic
  5. unsadistically
  6. unsadly
  7. unsadness
  8. unsafe
  9. unsafe sex
  10. unsafed
  11. unsafeguarded

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