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unsadly en · ADV

Etymology

From un- + sadly.

Meanings

1. Not sadly.
   • A glove was suspended / Spacious and wondrous, in art-fetters fastened, / Which was fashioned entirely by touch of the craftman / From the dragon’s skin by the devil’s devices: / He down in its depths would do me unsadly / One among many, deed-doer raging, / Though sinless he saw me; not so could it happen / When I in my anger upright did stand. 1893, “XXX. Beowulf Narrates His Adventures to Higelac”, in Jno: Lesslie Hall, transl., Beowulf, an Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem, translated from the Heyne-Socin text, Boston, U.S.A.: D. C. Heath & Co., page 71:
   • We can only with difficulty imagine such a thing; and yet it will be, and be the natural thing: an art without anguish, psychologically healthy, not solemn, unsadly confiding, an art per du with humanity… 1948, Doctor Faustus, quoted in C. B. Christesen, editor, Meanjin: A Literary Magazine, 1949, translation of original by Thomas Mann, page 29:
   • Moseby recalled the colours of their jerseys and sipped his stout, thinking unsadly on the fate of Scottish football. 1965, Alan Sharp, A Green Tree in Gedde, The New American Library, page 176:
   • The producer also pointed out the difficulty of building a town in the jungle. “This,” he told Grencer not unsadly, “will be the year’s most expensive production with the exception of Ben Hur.” 1978, Stuart Kaminsky, John Huston, Maker of Magic, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 123:
   • So the Algerian problem is not going to be put before the U.N.O. … We are told that your Government … will decide, not unsadly, to take sides against us, being unable to cause the slightest pain to its new pan-Arab friends … We will not even talk of gratitude, if you please; it is well known that gratitude is hardly a political value … Anti-American feeling does exist in France … You are very rich, very powerful, very effective, you play in the world a domnant^([sic]) role … 1957, Thierry Maulner, “Letter”, in Le Figaro, quoted in Wilton Dillon, Gifts and Nations, 1968, page 79:
   • He’s sung his sad song unsadly, and it hasn’t done him a damn bit of good. 2004, Michaelangelo Matos, Sign ‘O’ the Times, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN:
   • I was addressed, in a style of solicitude, as one who was going poetically wrong; and I went my way, not unsadly, imagining only an older poet’s sober differing with me in my ideas as to my way. 1993, Carolina Quarterly, page 75:
   • Of course she had wept for Miguel Cota; but then, life must go on, always on, Maria told herself not unsadly. 1935, Arthur Henry Gooden, Valley of the Kings, A. L. Burt Company, page 254:

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unsad · unsadden · unsadness