The phrase "rather unhappy" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe anything from an emotion to a physical object. For example, "The children were rather unhappy when they were told they had to leave the playground early."
I had also grown rather unhappy doing it.
I was rather unhappy then and he noticed that.
In that limited and rather unhappy sense, most of us really are in this together".
You cannot pursue happiness with such conspicuous enthusiasm without making quite a lot of people around the world rather unhappy.
In the years before, they bring up two rather unhappy children while sharing a threadbare existence in Europe.
Codron, still producing at 85, recalls Halliwell as "a rather grumpy fellow – a real loner, rather scruffy and rather unhappy".
That may strike some people as sad (in the pathetic, rather than unhappy, sense).
Max decided that making Kate happy -- or, rather, less unhappy -- was a legitimate factor in his decision to accept the settlement they were considering.
Mr. Gold said the decision had left the Rather side "unhappy, dismayed and surprised," adding that "the court saw the case differently than we did".
And I was just like: 'This doesn't mean anything.' " Would it be fair to call Okine perpetually dissatisfied rather than unhappy?
Richard McKane, who translated this week's poem, wrote: "It is my belief that the Akhmatova poems of the 30s and 40s will become the texts of poetry under repression". If there's rather more unhappy competition to represent repression than this allows, it reminds us of the continually searing power of Akhmatova's major, innovative works such as Requiem.
