单词 | unluckily |
释义 | unluckilyadv. 1. a. As a result of bad luck or misfortune; unfortunately. Also in unluckily for ——, specifying the person experiencing the misfortune.Chiefly used parenthetically or as a sentence adverb. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [adverb] > wretchedly or miserably un-i-sellyOE wretchedlyc1340 unhappily1390 miserably?a1425 lodderlyc1425 unluckily1530 miscreantly1744 the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adverb] evil971 unsellyc1275 chancefully1303 wrother-heala1325 badlyc1325 illc1325 ungraciouslyc1330 unhappilyc1374 evil haila1400 infortunately1442 shame to saya1450 ill haila1500 unluckily1530 unfortunately1548 unluckly1573 bad1575 haplessly1582 disasterly1593 lucklessly1596 untowardly1649 misfortunatelya1686 askew1858 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 840/1 Onluckely, de grant malheur. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Inauspicaid, vnluckyly. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. ii. sig. Kk4 Blind Fortune hating sharpe-sighted inuentions, made them vnluckily to be killed. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 92 Darab..most unluckily denyes, and goes on to levy men to support the rebellion. 1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 128 Unluckily..there has happen'd a prodigious conjunction. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. ix. 130 Unluckily all our money had been laid out..in provisions. 1799 Asiatic Researches (London ed.) 5 123 Unluckily, all the young plants died before I reached Bengal. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan III. 404 Unluckily for him, the order for pursuit was given too early. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xvii. 74 Of the state of things..we unluckily hear nothing. 1910 Times 27 Aug. 8/1 She has unluckily invested the greater part of her savings in a small freehold house. 1961 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 61 86/2 Unluckily, this valuable custom was later discontinued. 2007 D. Leavitt Indian Clerk ix. iii. 442 Unluckily for me, I'm afraid of pain. b. With verbs of happening, resulting, etc.: in an unfortunate manner; with an undesirable outcome. Now archaic. ΚΠ 1537 T. Paynell tr. Erasmus Comparation Vyrgin & Martyr f. 34v The exaumples of vyrgins, the whose chaunce was mooste vnluckely and vnwelthily to be bestowed & maried. 1544 P. Betham tr. J. di Porcia Preceptes Warre i. lxii. sig. D.iiiv Lest other his affaiers (the more vnluckelye for suche thynges) do chaunce, & God be enuyfull to vs aswell as man. ?1548 W. Lynne tr. M. Luther Fruteful Predication conc. Matrimony in tr. Vertuous Scholehous Vngracious Women sig. Hviijv Noman..feareth that it [sc. matrimony] myght succede vnluckely. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. iv. 1 Thinges haue fallen out..vnluckily . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iii. ii. 47 How vnluckily it hapned, that [etc.] . View more context for this quotation 1679 tr. M.-M. de La Fayette Princess of Cleves iv. 202 Though it fell out unluckily for Monsieur de Cleve, he had not the Conducting Madam Elizabeth. 1711 J. Swift Corr. 8 Mar. (1963) I. 215 Nothing could happen so unluckily..as Mr. Harley's Death. 1758 B. Plaisted Jrnl. Calcutta to Busserah (ed. 2) 100 It unluckily happened that this Affair was brought upon the Carpet in the Ramazan or Mahommedan Lent. 1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci v. i. 79 It has turned out unluckily. 1883 Sat. Rev. 10 Nov. 590/1 It unluckily happened that the last Parliamentary election was largely affected by foreign politics. 1936 F. R. Leavis Revaluation iv. 101 The poetic tradition developed unluckily. 2014 R. MacKenzie tr. C.-L. de S. de Montesquieu Persian Lett. cli. 235 I do not know why, but everything is turning out unluckily. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [adverb] unhappily1533 unluckily?1544 unprosperously1564 improsperously1605 unsuccessfully1649 successlessly1652 insuccessively1657 unsuccessively1707 unkindly1743 ?1544 E. Allen tr. A. Alesius Auctorite Word of God sig. Aiiijv Certen of my frindes did moue me to take in hand to practise, which thing I did I trust not vnluckyly. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xviii. sig. L7 Vrania, whom a rich knight..had vnluckely defended. 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 305 A certain Painter,..who painted cockes most unluckily, gave his boy great charge, to chase the true cockes away from his picture. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xx. sig. Ii2 Many of those young Ladies..are so unluckily Bred,..that [etc.]. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks II. ii. 192 Consider..how it [sc. our Picture] will appear, especially in the Light you have unluckily chosen to set it. 1792 Phœnix 14 Nov. 320 The lucky escape of the head, From a flint so unluckily thrown. 1810 Covent Garden Jrnl. 725 Look at his whole conduct throughout; cunningly imagined and cautiously designed, but unluckily executed, or rather marred. 1886 R. J. Shee tr. R. Gneist Eng. Parl. iv. 187 Affairs abroad, so unluckily conducted, were further traversed by still more urgent affairs at home. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1530 |
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