luckily
Journalists may enter the danger zone but unfortunately we cannot guarantee their safety.
Unfortunately we can't come this evening after all.
Unfortunately there's nothing I can do about your problem.
We tried to get tickets, but unfortunately they were already sold out.
Unfortunately the plane has been delayed - the new departure time is 16.20.

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
merciful
mercifully
mercy
miracle
misadventure
streak
voodoo
with any luckidiom
your luck's in!idiom

Examples of unfortunately

unfortunately
The analysis of the qualitative data appears, unfortunately, to have been somewhat superficial.
Unfortunately, rigorous scientific data are lacking on the efficacy and effectiveness to justify medical practice.
Many other adverbs (as interestingly, frankly, clearly, luckily, unfortunately) are similarly used; most are so ordinary as to excite no comment or interest whatsoever.
Unfortunately, it is difficult in a short space to do justice to a book which already is a philosophical classic.
Unfortunately, complaints returned due to a disturbance of rhythm.
Unfortunately, parties have only limited resources with which to prepare for office.
Unfortunately, however, negligible data on its activities have survived.
I entirely agree, but only because this is a true story told from a first-person perspective, which does not, unfortunately, escape epiphenomenalism.
Unfortunately, this makes the testing of sensor models less straightforward.
Unfortunately, the measurement of cell proliferation has tended to be unreliable.
Unfortunately she suffered complications in a later pregnancy and the stitch had to be removed.
Unfortunately, unlike many linear equations, these nonlinear equations are generally not solvable in closed functional mathematical form.
Unfortunately, the exact age and significance of the high-grade event remains unclear.
Unfortunately he is not entirely clear about how he understands the relationship between the treatments of astronomy and geometry.
Unfortunately, there are no cross-nationally comparable measures of this relationship that would make a systematic analysis possible.
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