unhappiness

Example Sentences

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He voiced growing unhappiness with his reputation as one of the “most hated people in the known universe.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

This may be one reason young people in America show such disdain and unhappiness with their country.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

"I was sure I'd find a very strong association between happiness and having fun, but instead I discovered that Finnish children associate happiness with feeling safe, and unhappiness with feeling unsafe."

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

And as filmmaker Liz Garbus consistently underlines throughout “Dynasty: The Murdochs,” their unhappiness is singular because it is spectacular.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

The long years of solitude and unhappiness had distilled her emotions and purified her feelings down to a few terrible, magnificent passions, which possessed her totally.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende