unhappy
/ʌnˈhæpi/ verb C2- To make or become unhappy; to sadden.
He/she/it unhappies · Past unhappied · Past participle unhappied · -ing form unhappying
Verb forms
- Base form
- unhappy
- He/she/it
- unhappies
- Past
- unhappied
- Past participle
- unhappied
- -ing form
- unhappying
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As they walked off together, Alice heard the King say in a low voice, to the company generally, “You are all pardoned.” “Come, _that’s_ a good thing!” she said to herself, for she had felt quite unhappy at the number of executions the Queen had ordered.
Very small and unhappy she looked, and Matthew’s heart smote him.
“Oh, certainly--certainly--just as you say,” stammered unhappy Matthew, seizing the rake and making for the door.
She must have been dreadfully unhappy sometime to have such a look.
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