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miserable Adjective

— In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.

miserable

— adjective (= suffering, wretched) very unhappy; full of misery he felt depressed and miserable a message of hope for suffering humanity wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages — adjective (= hapless, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched) deserving or inciting pity a hapless victim miserable victims of war the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic — Galsworthy piteous appeals for help pitiable homeless children a pitiful fate Oh, you poor thing his poor distorted limbs a wretched life — adjective (= abject, low, low-down, scummy, scurvy) of the most contemptible kind abject cowardice a low stunt to pull a low-down sneak his miserable treatment of his family You miserable skunk! a scummy rabble a scurvy trick — adjective (= wretched) characterized by physical misery a wet miserable weekend spent a wretched night on the floor — adjective (= measly, paltry) contemptibly small in amount a measly tip the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief a paltry wage almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans — adjective (= deplorable, woeful) of very poor quality or condition deplorable housing conditions in the inner city woeful treatment of the accused woeful errors of judgment

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miserable English » English

wretched poor dismal pitiful sad abject pitiable unhappy bad nasty tragic gaunt dreary mean cruel pathetic meager distressed woeful severe bleak unfortunate sorrowful somber piteous impoverished gloomy destitute deplorable sorry rotten forlorn depressed dejected wrong unenviable suffering evil beggarly squalid shameful paltry needy indigent grievous downcast doleful beastly afflicted wretch

Topics miserable topics

What do people use miserable to talk about?

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Examples miserable examples

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Simple sentences

She really is a miserable girl.

She said that she was miserable.

The economy was in miserable condition.

He had to lead a miserable life for many years.

They sympathized with the miserable criminal.

This miserable old church is the oldest building in our country.

When I think about it now, our family lived a very miserable life.

She's rich but miserable.

What happened to you? You look miserable.

Suddenly she felt tiny, worthless and miserable.

Tom is miserable.

I only eat like this when I'm miserable.

I'm miserable.

He makes life miserable for everyone around him.

He looked miserable.

A miserable sequence of defeats discouraged us.

Kate glanced at Chris and then ignored him, making him feel miserable.

The weather was miserable yesterday.

One who longs for death is miserable, but more miserable is he who fears it.

She died a miserable death.

I confess I'm miserable.

Movie subtitles

English life expectancy at birth was a miserable 37 years.

The Mormons talked about people who were miserable like us, but they all found someplace to go.

The devils' companion can be young and beautiful, but she is more often old, poor and miserable.

I've never met him. I am a miserable, made from a great man, by a king for his work and grace.

In the slums, a miserable shack.

You miserable villain!

Miserable pimp!

You miserable rascals!

Miserable brats!

Deceptions horribly against the grain. when i deceived him, i would deceive god himself, i was so miserable!

Now, we shall be miserable all the evening.

A miserable rivulet runs through the village down from the hills.

This miserable sum is enough for an entire family... until the not-so-distant day when the practice is outlawed.

A death is one of the rare events in these miserable villages.

If you comply with my demands immediately, I just might let you all live, you miserable cyborgs. Heh.

So tell me, why would you be willing to risk your own existence for those miserable humans?

You try to defame him, but he is noble and sublime and I am miserable and depraved.

I've made your life miserable.

To live all day in this miserable place would give anyone the blues.

Give up this miserable life.

Sanctify these bounteous masses to us miserable sinners.

I have never taken it myself. And I am the miserable creature you behold.

They'll just make your lives miserable.

My friend, they already make our lives miserable.

What miserable existence!

Isn't it enough that I'm the most miserable wife?

I'm dying a lonely, miserable death on a rainy night.

And the miserable homes you saw in this film will disappear for ever.

But if you are content to stay here like a dumb animal in this miserable life, then I wash my hands from you.

Well, what are you all looking so miserable about?

He confuses himself by playing music.. On a.. miserable little instrument. He throws.. if you will pardon me..

I've made your life miserable, and mine too.

News and current affairs

This miserable situation has been attributed to various causes, mainly lack of infrastructure and local economic conditions.

Indeed, the track record of on-again-off-again aid is miserable.

Images of miserable refugee families drifting in the sea, at the mercy of rapacious smugglers and gangsters, can easily inspire feelings of pity and compassion (and not just in Germany).

I was living in a miserable hotel in a rundown neighborhood, consumed with a newcomer's neurotic insecurity.

Isn't buying eggs from hens who have led a miserable life, jammed into small wire cages, needlessly causing, or being complicit in causing, the suffering of animals?

Free-market economics leads to great outcomes for the rich, but pretty miserable outcomes for everyone else.

But Primakov's so far cautious smack of firm government, weakened by the miserable condition of Russian state finances, might yet fail in tranquilizing today's disillusioned Russian masses.

Extreme poverty bred illiteracy and miserable governance, which in turn intensified hunger, disease, and instability.

Much of rural China is still miserable, with 150 million people effectively unemployed and health and education standards often befitting an earlier century.

Nowadays, low salaries make many lives here miserable, pensions are a joke, and the shadow economy is vast.

If any of this is to be changed, the perception of Africa as single, miserable mass that discourages both investors and global public opinion from sustained engagement must be changed.

Of course, it could simply have been the weather; a gorgeous summer has finally settled in after a miserable spring.

They have a miserable diet - not least when compared with Bush's Texan neighbors.

Simply put, Bush's record on science policy is miserable.

But nowhere is the contrast between the recent glorious past and the miserable present as spectacular as it is in France.

The problem is that after so many years of miserable returns on dollar assets, will global investors really be willing to absorb another trillion dollars in US debt at anything near current interest rates and exchange rates?

This approach would enable all countries to be better prepared for and resilient to the continuing flows of millions of miserable and ultimately angry people.

The code has been overwhelmingly successful in ridding Australian football of the on-field racism that made life miserable for most indigenous players, with the number of indigenous players at the elite level more than doubling over the last decade.

The scale of China's defeat stunned Deng, and historians often credit the PLA's miserable performance with forcing him to take a hard look at China's moribund Maoist system.

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