unsadly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Not sadly.
Example Sentences
- "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 it happen / When I in my anger upright did stand."
- "Of course she had wept for Miguel Cota; but then, life must go on, always on, Maria told herself not unsadly."
- "We can only with difficulty imagine such a thing; and yet it will be, and be the natural thing: an art without anguish, psychologically healthy, not solemn, unsadly confiding, an art per du with humanity…"
- "So the Algerian problem is not going to be put before the U.N.O. … We are told that your Government … will decide, not unsadly, to take sides against us, being unable to cause the slightest pain to its new pan-Arab friends … We will not even talk of gratitude, if you please; it is well known that gratitude is hardly a political value … Anti-American feeling does exist in France … You are very rich, very powerful, very effective, you play in the world a domnant^([sic]) role …"
- "Moseby recalled the colours of their jerseys and sipped his stout, thinking unsadly on the fate of Scottish football."
- "The producer also pointed out the difficulty of building a town in the jungle. “This,” he told Grencer not unsadly, “will be the year’s most expensive production with the exception of Ben Hur.”"
Etymology
From un- + sadly.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un
Inflected Forms
more unsadly (comparative)
most unsadly (superlative)