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Do you know, I pity you all the same, for I know you are unhappy--unhappy as one who has been wounded, and malicious because you are wounded.

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  1. adjective Not happy or joyful; sad or sorrowful: unhappy over his friend's departure.
  2. adjective Not satisfied; displeased or discontented: unhappy with her raise.
  3. adjective Not attended by or bringing good fortune; unlucky.

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  • We find people with feverish spirits--unhappy, discontented, fretted, worried, perhaps insubmissive and rebellious. —  Making the Most of Life
  • I do not look upon you as actually unhappy, that is not in your nature, you sunbeam, yet you lack in your dear life the best light, that of another's shedding. —  The Wings of Icarus Being the Life of one Emilia Fletcher
  • Unhappy sun--unhappy, unhappy Annadoah Taking fire in the subdued sunlight--and descending from heaven like a gentle benediction of feathery flakes of gold--over and about the dark, crouched figure, softly very softly the snow began to fall 1] Annadoah's flight, extraordinary as it is, is not without even more remarkable precedents. —  The Eternal Maiden
  • I'm unhappy--unhappy--an' my heart's breakin The old man's voice failed him as he uttered the last words; for the conflict which he felt evidently convulsed his whole frame. —  Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
  • Do you know, I pity you all the same, for I know you are unhappy--unhappy as one who has been wounded, and malicious because you are wounded. —  Plays by August Strindberg, Second series
 

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unfortunate ·  miserable ·  sad ·  poor ·  nervous ·  unpleasant ·  sick

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unhappy:   unhappiest
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  1. from Middle English unhappy, unhappi, onhappy; from un- + happy.
 

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