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unfortunately English

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What does unfortunately mean?
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unfortunately

You use unfortunately to show that you feel something is not the way you wish it was. Unfortunately, we didn't win. I don't have any more money, unfortunately.

unfortunately

(= alas) by bad luck unfortunately it rained all day alas, I cannot stay

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Simple sentences

Unfortunately, I have to disappoint you.
Tom has always took pride in his ability to satisfy every woman in bed. Unfortunately, he is quickly losing his erection as well as his reputation of the reliable lover.
Unfortunately, it's not that simple.
Unfortunately, I cannot find the battery for my camera.
Unfortunately, I can't tell her.
Unfortunately, I didn't quite understand what she wanted to say.
Unfortunately, he wasn't very good at it.
Unfortunately, we ignored that warning.
It is unfortunately true.
Unfortunately, it's true.
Unfortunately the telephone was out of order.
Unfortunately he refused to come.
Unfortunately, the store was closed.
Unfortunately, there was no one around.
Unfortunately I was not in time for his speech.
Unfortunately, it rained yesterday.
Unfortunately, it rained.
Unfortunately, you won't get anything done in that office unless you grease someone's palm.
Unfortunately, full employment can no longer be taken for granted.
Unfortunately, you cannot bring him along.
Unfortunately, that's true.
Unfortunately, that is true.
Unfortunately I hit the morning rush hour.
Unfortunately I have no money with me.
Unfortunately, the hotel that you suggested was completely booked up.

Movie subtitles

Unfortunately the letter was better than her application, but she did get into Cal State Northridge, which is the Harvard of Northridge.
Unfortunately, Leslie did wrap up before Cooper got back, but I was on the case.
Unsolved, unfortunately.
Unfortunately, I have to work this evening.
Unfortunately, at this time, I'm not gonna be able to adjust the starting salary.
Well, unfortunately, Instagram has rules against posting photos that include women's nipples.
See, unfortunately several years ago.
Unfortunately I can not arrive until next week.
Tiergartenstr. 245 My love; unfortunately I have to take a business trip, but I shall return tomorrow.
Unfortunately I do not have time to hear it.
Very wise, but unfortunately too late Inspector, it can't be too late.
Unfortunately, Monsieur Giron, business bores me to distraction.
Unfortunately not, Inspector.
Unfortunately it is only too certain that this dead man here is Dr. Mabuse.
They're unfortunately right.
Unfortunately, yes.
Unfortunately, the others are out right now.
Unfortunately we have no choice but to believe her.
Unfortunately, Lizzy, you're chest-deep in filth, and you're gonna have to wade through it - to get to the other side.
I'd like to warn you for some reasons, but I know the futility of such an action and how he who warns is detested by him who loves unfortunately.
Your majesty, unfortunately we'll have to deliberate without the Czar.
Unfortunately, it's in my blood.
Unfortunately, no.
Unfortunately, he isn't here.
I tracked two of his men to that music hall. Unfortunately, they recognized me.
But unfortunately it's burnt on one side and raw on the other!
Unfortunately, every crook within a thousand miles, every political offender and exile. will try to take advantage of the masquerade.
UNFORTUNATELY, ROSS, WHO SCHEDULED YOUR APPOINTMENT, IS, UH. WELL, WE'RE.
You wrote Jastenity that letter to get into Harvard. Unfortunately the letter was better than her application, but she did get into Cal State Northridge, which is the Harvard of Northridge.
Unfortunately, you're chest-deep in filth.
But the author is looking out for him who has been abandoned by everyone, and so he bestows upon him an epilogue, telling a story that. - unfortunately. - usually doesn't occur in real life.
UNFORTUNATELY, THERE ARE A GREAT MANY MEN IN PARIS WHO ARE LAME.
A month unfortunately. Professor Topaze. Our talk has convinced me that you have been a victim of excessive mother-love.
Unfortunately, they recognized me.
Yes, Mr. Flint. But unfortunately.
Unfortunately we can't give you the desired apartment with five rooms.
Unfortunately, I could slap myself.

News and current affairs

Unfortunately, as a result of the private-sector deleveraging and an increase in household savings, the US economy, driven by debt and consumption, slid into recession.
Unfortunately, like so many other international agreements, the Convention on Biological Diversity remains essentially unknown, un-championed, and unfulfilled.
This anger and fear are unfortunately ably represented by many politicians. (Para.
But, unfortunately, if this loss of trust persists, it could be costly for us all.
Unfortunately, conditions across the Union will likely worsen before they begin to improve.
Germany urgently needs this kind of optimism, because, unfortunately, two universal principles will continue to apply in the future: first, the winter will return, and, second, the ball is round and the next game is always the most difficult.
Little of this, however, is the result of design, for (unfortunately) we in Poland have not thought through what sort of foreign policy we need as a member of NATO and putative member of the European Union.
Unfortunately, that is no surprise.
Unfortunately, Germany resists all of these key policy measures, as it is fixated on the credit risk to which its taxpayers would be exposed with greater economic, fiscal, and banking integration.
Unfortunately, Merkel's campaign is off to a rocky start, and the recent entry of Oskar Lafontaine's extreme left-wing party into the fray may necessitate the formation of a grand coalition between the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats.
Unfortunately, at every step during the past decade - and still today - a chorus of aid skeptics has argued against the needed help.
Unfortunately, the DPJ scrapped an LDP-sponsored civil-service reform bill, which would have allowed the DPJ to replace mandarins with an army of political appointees.
Unfortunately, that is a facile excuse.
Unfortunately, however, Gore was not successful in carrying the torch on global warming when he was a politician.
Unfortunately, the NATFHE effort is part of a larger phenomenon.
Unfortunately, despite past stimulus, growth is still tepid, and it is increasingly difficult to find sensible new spending that can pay off in the short run.
Unfortunately, the risks of doing so are no less obvious.
Unfortunately, the world has failed to learn the lessons of Japan.
Unfortunately, Koizumi and his allies are not prepared to move forward on the Yasukuni issue.
This anger and fear are unfortunately ably represented by many politicians.
This is an important advance, but, unfortunately, it is qualified by language that allows voluntary approaches as an alternative, and it focuses only on payments transparency.
Unfortunately, this has been far from the case in America (and in Europe, where the situation is worse).

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