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unhappy - use in sentences
Preposition: about
- aspect: We are unhappy about certain aspects of the proposed changes to the regime for IFAs.
Preposition: with
- outcome: Should you be unhappy with the outcome or with the action taken, you may address your complaint to OC Admin Sqn.
- response: There is a two-stage appeal process for anyone unhappy with the initial response they receive.
- decision: What happens if I am unhappy with a decision?
- aspect: I am unhappy with some aspect of City & Guilds!
- situation: I guess we should take it that Robin Stacey is a touch unhappy with the situation... .
- reply: If the supporter is unhappy with the reply they can refer the matter to the Club Chairman.
Modifying Another Word
- deeply: He, along with others in the know, was deeply unhappy about the added spin.
- desperately: With almost no lines, Williams creates a broken, desperately unhappy man out of a character it would be easy to simply despise.
- understandably: The soldier emperors were understandably unhappy at having a large minority of dubious loyalty in the threatened provinces of the east.
- terribly: The girl was terribly unhappy, but she was glowing with her deed too.
Modifies a noun
- wretch: I am an unhappy wretch, and it is all his fault, for he ought to have known his own condition.
- rebirth: He has no more conditions to commit evil deeds leading to an unhappy rebirth.
- ending: Have you ever seen a film with an unhappy ending?
- childhood: With Barnardo's help, an unhappy childhood need not lead to a bleak future.
- marriage: Maybe I let Helen's unhappy marriage with Francis cloud my decision not to marry him.
- fate: Then: I straight to -- jail was sent, my trial to await, And then did bitterly lament my poor unhappy fate.
Used with adjective complement
- feel: Or you may feel unhappy about their staying over at the homes of friends whose parents you may not know.
- remain: His job is to consider complaints made by prisoners who remain unhappy with the answer they have received from the Prison Service.
- seem: It helped to answer many of my questions about why plants that were supposed to flourish in shade seemed unhappy in certain shaded areas.
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