See you at four-thirty," I told him, and hung up, vaguely unhappy and quite puzzled.

I'm just vaguely unhappy.

She went to bed feeling dissatisfied and vaguely unhappy.

Certainly it's a reaction natural to most of us, but in fact what often happens is that we've given the other party something to brood about; we've made them vaguely unhappy.

He went out of the room, leaving Celine vaguely unhappy.

If Ms. Settle's work was never wildly fashionable - possibly because "I don't write about being vaguely unhappy in Connecticut," she once said - that allowed it to age well.

He was vaguely unhappy.

Athena looks vaguely unhappy, perhaps because the constant playing, which involved using her mouth as a kind of bagpipe, has distorted the shape of her lips.

He resumed his seat, vaguely unhappy that the longed-for respite from the stacks of paper before him would be postponed.

She was vaguely unhappy and uneasy; there was a menace in all the news from England now, both in the letters from her old aunt and in the newspapers.