unsadly

From un- +‎ sadly.

unsadly (comparative more unsadly, superlative most unsadly)

1. Not sadly.
   • 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:

     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.

   • 1935, Arthur Henry Gooden, Valley of the Kings, A. L. Burt Company, page 254:

     Of course she had wept for Miguel Cota; but then, life must go on, always on, Maria told herself not unsadly.

   • 1948, Doctor Faustus, quoted in C. B. Christesen, editor, Meanjin: A Literary Magazine, 1949, translation of original by Thomas Mann, page 29:

     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…

   • 1957, Thierry Maulner, “Letter”, in Le Figaro, quoted in Wilton Dillon, Gifts and Nations, 1968, page 79:

     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 …

   • 1965, Alan Sharp, A Green Tree in Gedde, The New American Library, page 176:

     Moseby recalled the colours of their jerseys and sipped his stout, thinking unsadly on the fate of Scottish football.

   • 1978, Stuart Kaminsky, John Huston, Maker of Magic, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 123:

     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.”

   • 1993, Carolina Quarterly, page 75:

     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.

   • 2004, Michaelangelo Matos, Sign ‘O’ the Times, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN:

     He’s sung his sad song unsadly, and it hasn’t done him a damn bit of good.

• unsad
• unsadden
• unsadness

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