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as in sad
feeling unhappiness he's been unhappy ever since his family's move, which took him away from all his friends

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Recent Examples of unhappy But not everyone in the region is unhappy about the Trump administration’s immigration policies and deportation measures. Iris Kim, NBC news, 31 Mar. 2025 The administration is gambling an increasingly unhappy consumer will eat a few months of worsening conditions for the promise of something better down the road. Ben Berkowitz, Axios, 30 Mar. 2025 Despite that success, Willard was unhappy with the program’s financial commitments. Taylor Lyons, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2025 If Amazon is unhappy with season 2 of Citadel and season 1 was not all the great to begin with, this idea that the series is going to launch into some popular, sprawling spy universe for the service seems in doubt. Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unhappy
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Adjective
  • Though the courts have not invariably ruled against Trump, the Administration’s record so far is, to use one of the President’s favorite words, sad.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
  • The sad story of Alex Verdugo was one of the most puzzling dramas of the MLB offseason.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Apr. 2025
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  • The self-deportation of a University of Florida student reveals the new reality for many immigrants — any brush with the law can set off a chain of unfortunate events.
    Clara-Sophia Daly, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2025
  • In an unfortunate piece of timing, the management consultancy Arthur D Little published its third annual global CEO Insights study at the beginning of this week, just as the world’s markets were taking in the impact of President Trump’s wide-ranging tariffs policy.
    Roger Trapp, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
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  • Olivia Heller/The Hustle For-profit developers, for one thing, often find church and synagogue properties unsuitable for redevelopment.
    Mark Dent, HubSpot, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Such glues and taped seams make Gore-tex jackets unsuitable for chemical recycling.
    Carlton Reid, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
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  • The detective here, blending a couple of characters from the book, is Inspector Leach, a depressed drinker so unkempt one wonders why he hasn’t been put on administrative leave.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
  • To my dismay, the leader started feeling depressed rather than taking the actions that were most required.
    Sonal Jain, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
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  • Trump has derided the outlets as being unfavorable to him and a drain on taxpayer money.
    Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 15 Apr. 2025
  • According to a Quinnipiac poll released in mid-March, only 7 percent of American voters have a favorable opinion of Putin, while 81 percent have an unfavorable opinion of him.
    Eric Jason Martin Tanya Pérez Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
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  • Mickey Rourke was removed from the Celebrity Big Brother UK house after further usage of inappropriate language.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Lewin has insisted there was nothing inappropriate about this visit.
    Nick Tabor, Curbed, 11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Before Minecraft, the turnout for major films at the box office has been middling to miserable.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Daryl was born in 1952, four years after the club’s last championship and just in time for four decades of miserable baseball on the lakeshore.
    Zack Meisel, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
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  • But what could have been a disastrous situation from the jump has the looks of becoming a positive for Báez and the Tigers.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Apple had seemed to resolve this with its Private Cloud Compute, but then its disastrous Apple Intelligence delays made all that somewhat academic for the time being at least.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025

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“Unhappy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unhappy. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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