unluckily
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 18
- Words With Friends
- 23
- Letters
- 9
/ʌnˈlʌkɪli/
Definition of unluckily
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adv
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Without luck; unfortunately.
“[…] where Hercules and Omphale having changed garments, he lying in his wives clothes, and ſhe in his Lions skin, made the luſtfull God mistake ſo unluckily, […]”
“Afterward, in his small room, Nikky composed a neat, 'well-rounded speech, in which he expressed his loyalty, gratitude, and undying devotion to the Crown Prince. It was an elegant little speech. Unluckily, the occasion for it had gone by two hours.”
“M. Berbiguier brought his action for libel; but unluckily, together with his action, he brought himself into Court, and established in a very few words the truth of the libel.”
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Etymology
From unlucky + -ly or un- + luckily.
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