adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a happy/unhappy marriage
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Ours was a very happy marriage.
an unhappy knack (= a knack that you would not want )
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He had the unhappy knack of making enemies.
desperately unhappy/lonely/worried etc
distinctly uncomfortable/uneasy/unhappy etc
happy/unhappy memories
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Many people have unhappy memories of being forced to play team sports.
happy/unhappy
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Her parents divorced and her childhood was unhappy.
have a happy/unhappy etc childhood
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I wish I'd had a happy childhood like yours.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
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Some patients and carers were also unhappy about what they saw as sub-optimal care or different services passing the buck.
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People were also unhappy about relatives being moved to reservations some distance away.
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I think he is proud, and also unhappy .
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Meanwhile, customers were also unhappy Kodak was too slow, too late, and too error ridden.
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Creditors are also unhappy about the way the business has ceased trading under one of its names.
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They are also unhappy with the legislation for police reform, which they believe does not go far enough.
deeply
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Her husband was apparently a heavy drinker, and their marriage was deeply unhappy .
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And his family is deeply unhappy and divided over political and social issues of the day.
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Ian Gilmour and Peter Walker were deeply unhappy .
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They are deeply unhappy about the fact that Chirac, as president, enjoys immunity.
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Suddenly again it was a deeply unhappy time.
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For over two long, deeply unhappy years, it had been a prison.
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Charlie was heartbroken: Robert was deeply unhappy .
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Clearly, he was surprised and deeply unhappy to see me.
desperately
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I was desperately unhappy , almost suicidal.
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No hopeless lover of a living maiden was ever so desperately unhappy as Pygmallon.
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Although in other poems Leapor shows that labouring class women can be desperately unhappy in marriage, she is not unequivocal.
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He said she was desperately unhappy .
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She sounds desperately unhappy , poor thing, and perhaps she should talk to a psychiatrist.
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The fact was that Sir Herbert was a desperately unhappy man.
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All of that I could understand, but it concerned me that she was so nervous and desperately unhappy .
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Their relationship had become conflict-ridden to the point where each of them was desperately unhappy .
how
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Look how unhappy you've made her!
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I was thinking how unhappy you looked.
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You can imagine, Ellen, how unhappy I felt in that unpleasant house.
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Her parents had had the sense to realise how unhappy she was, and had made alternative arrangements.
more
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Their faces got more and more unhappy .
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The more she got, the more unhappy she became.
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Two days passed and Angel's cries became more unhappy .
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Experience with exotic plants and insects has been even more unhappy than with animal importations.
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There were two more unhappy faces in the Opera House, too.
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I doubt if anyone could have been much more unhappy than I was living with them at Maythorpe House.
so
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Gently, I said I wondered whether she had lost a child, whether that was why she was so unhappy .
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Now let us talk about something else, if it makes you so unhappy !
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She looked so unhappy , Jay didn't know what to do.
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I was so unhappy but I had nowhere else to go so I stayed until the baby was born.
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But why was her voice so unhappy ?
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Now I feel so unhappy and jealous when I see babies or pregnant women.
still
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After saving mankind, Re was still unhappy and felt weak and old.
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It separated again in 1845, still unhappy with the federal government's control over its governor.
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However, MEPs are still unhappy about the directive.
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If you are still unhappy you can change to another practice.
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But we are still unhappy to have lost our holiday for something that seemed out of our control.
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Only if the client is still unhappy would he be directed to the Solicitors Complaints Bureau.
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We've got the replacement council tax to come and many people are still unhappy .
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If you are still unhappy contact the Service Dept at the Land Rover factory.
very
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But he looks very unhappy , too ... and afraid.
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It is my great sorrow, and makes my life very unhappy .
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Poor Julia and I had very unhappy lives.
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When Oates first saw the ponies, in New Zealand, he was very unhappy .
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I was very unhappy , because I saw then that I was on an island.
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She was a very lovely but very unhappy woman.
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Emily had only been away from home twice, and each time she had been very unhappy .
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I was very unhappy , physically and psychologically ill.
■ NOUN
child
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There is also a multiplication effect created by unhappy children .
childhood
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They find that unhappy childhoods are behind many difficulties in later life.
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She had an unhappy childhood in Weston-super-Mare, and was briefly sent to boarding-school in Devizes at the age of eight.
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The debris of Franca's unhappy childhood had been swept away long ago.
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Case example Jenny, a single girl aged 27, had experienced an unhappy childhood .
experience
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They consider that you can only move on from an unhappy experience if you have given it some meaning.
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The thought of returning to the merchant world, even after this unhappy experience , was less than welcome.
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There are those who have reservations about the value of choirs or other groups in worship, perhaps because of unhappy experience .
man
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The fact was that Sir Herbert was a desperately unhappy man .
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My father was an unstable and unhappy man .
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Ahead towered Robinsgrove - such a large house for one unhappy man .
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So different from the brooding and unhappy man of a week ago.
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Five tired, unhappy men , in the coldest, emptiest place on earth.
marriage
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If he ever married, then it would be an unhappy marriage .
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Perhaps this was a painful subject, what with his own unhappy marriage to Jane.
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He revealed details of the royal couple's unhappy marriage and told of Diana's bulimia.
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An unhappy marriage is more likely to be explained in terms of current stresses than in relation to what has gone on long before.
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But in spite of the unhappy marriages , people go on marrying and remarrying, don't they?
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Diana's parents had had an unhappy marriage .
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He was an only child whose parents had had an unhappy marriage , with rows and infidelities.
memory
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New York city is reviving unhappy memories of its near-crash in the 1970s.
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Perhaps this unhappy memory has clouded the overall impression of the country, which is unfortunate.
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Ruth shook her head, trying to put these unhappy memories from her mind.
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It's so full of unhappy memories - and I don't want to face the possibility of bumping into Uncle Joe.
time
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Thames Valley police are hoping their action will make it an unhappy time for thieves.
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The family needed help to discuss these unhappy times with Darren and understand the immense distress and confusion he must have felt.
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Suddenly again it was a deeply unhappy time .
woman
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Who knew what an unhappy woman might say in such straits, and how little she might mean it?
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She gave off the peculiar strength of presence that unhappy women sometimes radiate.
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She is not an unhappy woman , by comparison.
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She was a very lovely but very unhappy woman .
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Some unhappy women , whose husbands are unable to offer them emotional support, quite inappropriately turn to their sons.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an unhappy love affair
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Arlene has had an unhappy life.
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Her parents' divorce left her feeling confused and unhappy
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I felt so unhappy about what he had said that I just sat down and cried.
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Looking at that photo always bring back unhappy memories.
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Neil was very unhappy at school.
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Phil was married for three unhappy years.
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She was desperately unhappy after Sean left her.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the unhappy customer base stayed loyal in enormous numbers so that the company is now reaping the benefit.
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Compassionate capitalists know that all this talk of love is humbug and poppycock when people are hungry, homeless, and unhappy .
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Enemas and suppositories may be of use but habitual use of these can create an unhappy and strained parent-child relationship.
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Her husband was apparently a heavy drinker, and their marriage was deeply unhappy .
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It was an unhappy coincidence that she had appeared from the direction of Midway.
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Sefton Hamilton entered the room as a gale might hit an unhappy seaside town.
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Williams is unhappy because his father was a tough, unlovable brute whom he couldn't help loving.
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Yet there was communication, albeit of an unhappy quality.