The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unluckily \Un*luck"i*ly\, adv. In an unlucky manner.
Wiktionary
adv. Without luck; unfortunately
WordNet
adv. by bad luck; "unfortunately it rained all day"; "alas, I cannot stay" [syn: unfortunately, regrettably, alas] [ant: fortunately, fortunately]
Usage examples of "unluckily".
Honour had unluckily poured so much of this liquid fire down her throat, that the smoke of it began to ascend into her pericranium, and blinded the eyes of Reason, which is there supposed to keep her residence, while the fire itself from the stomach easily reached the heart, and there inflamed the noble passion of pride.
Most unluckily for Lo the infantry company was armed with the new Springfield breech-loader, and when the band came exultantly on, having, as they supposed, drawn the fire when full four hundred yards away, they were confounded by the lively crackle and sputter of rifles along the timber in front of them, toppling many a dashing warrior to earth and strewing the ground with slaughtered ponies.
Unluckily we are short of linguists - only you can speak English and none of us has a command of your language - but the code that we have worked out should be more than adequate.
But unluckily the Varens, six months before, had given me this filette Adele, who, she affirmed, was my daughter.
Pressure to bring down the minefield had finally become inexorable, and this coincided, luckily or unluckily, with Damar's idea to use the station's deflectors as an antigraviton weapon against the mines.
Pressure to bring down the minefield hadfinally become inexorable, and this coincided, luck-ily or unluckily, with Damar's idea to use thestation's deflectors as an antigraviton weaponagainst the mines.
Unluckily for me, he had been married to my lumpish sister Allia for the past twenty years, so we were bonded inescapably: Verontius and I were family.
Luckily for me, but unluckily for the thug concerned, Olga's childlike enthusiasms include embroidery, violins, haute couture, and semiautomatic weapons.
And, very unluckily for the world, persons so qualified very seldom care to take upon themselves the bad trade of writing.
In short, my dear, if you was unluckily to see him now, I could describe him no better than by telling you he was the very reverse of everything which he is: for he hath rusticated himself so long, that he is become an absolute wild Irishman.