unfortunately

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Good luck and bad luck
align
bad/hard/tough luck!idiom
be bad luck on someoneidiom
be down on your luckidiom
be in/out of luckidiom
blessing
fortune cookie
fortune smiles on someoneidiom
get the short end of the stickidiom
godsend
grace
mercifully
mercy
miracle
misadventure
mischance
streak
voodoo
with any luckidiom
your luck's in!idiom

Examples of luckily

luckily
Luckily, the error that has impeded acceptance of this way of viewing matters can be readily identified and corrected.
Luckily, there is a clear sense in which we can talk about joint acts in a cooperatively neutral manner.
Luckily, the company, so far, has not checked a breed book.
Luckily, the informant got par t of the story wrong.
Luckily, most of the damage in the recordings seems to have affected the refrain rather than the lyrics.
Luckily, we do not have to choose between these two dismal options, of rational egoism or commitment to an unjust form of group agency.
Luckily, when you work a long time on the construction and with the material it always comes out right.
Luckily, we can fix the above problem in a very simple way.
Luckily, however, these integrals are analytic functions of the parameter (due to the finite support of g).
Luckily, the number of unlucky primes is small relative to the total number of estimated primes.
Luckily, in many cases, natural splittings do preserve symmetries.
Luckily, greater size is not a difficult objective to achieve.
Luckily, years ago, she took out a disability policy but it only provided her with half her previous income.
Luckily, the actual contents of the articles are in large part better than the editorial work.
Luckily, the same results presented above can be used to carry out a ' 'query by example' '.
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