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misery

Misery is great unhappiness or sadness. Misery is the way of life and situation of very poor people. A misery is an event that causes misery; a disaster.

misery

(= wretchedness) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable a feeling of intense unhappiness she was exhausted by her misery and grief

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Simple sentences

Life is a great misery.
It was Tom who put Mary through this misery.
This misery resulted from his laziness.
That landslide produced a lot of misery.
The accompaniments of the war are misery and sorrow.
Misery and sorrow accompany war.
Misery loves company.
His illness caused her great misery.
She tells her tale of misery to everyone she meets.
All the money he won in the lottery brought him nothing but misery.
An uncontrolled life leads to misery.
At the end of his life, Hokusai lived in misery, alone with his daughter, and worked until his death.
Someone should put that dog out of its misery.
Free yourself of sadness, misery and fear!
His cup of misery was full.
Many have suffered oppression and misery for a long period of time under the rule of colonialism.
War is accompanied by poverty and misery.
They are living in misery.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Happiness is so much more enjoyable when it's based on the misery of others.
Neither happiness nor misery last forever.
Tom shot the injured horse to put it out of its misery.

Movie subtitles

Need, misery, and illness have set in for landlord Matter.
God's word is a rock in happiness and misery Firmly it stands where mountains sway.
Over this Pass men faced untold misery and hardship.
After the Russian Revolution, civil war raged in the Crimea. bringing in its wake chaos and misery and unscrupulous men.
I was gonna tell her about all the misery I saw in the kingdom.
It's a scene of devastating misery.
Despite the misery in which the Hurdanos live their moral and religious sense is the same as anywhere else in the world.
The misery shown in this film is not without remedy.
Sam, I am a wall of misery, all right?
In misery, suffering, in the blood of the people.
He's got the misery.
The man who gets you is gonna have a lifetime of misery!
I've loved you from the first minute I can remember, and you've brought me nothing but misery.
Why don't you put her out of her misery.
On coloured lips its blaze reflected my misery's dreadful need.
That makes people resentful and pushes Germany even deeper into misery than it already is!
You abandoned a woman to the deepest misery.
Annual income twenty pounds, Annual expenditure twenty one pounds, result misery.
He who, for an instant, makes them forget misery, fatigue, anxiety and death, who makes them laugh when they should cry, who gives them the strength to live, we love as a benefactor.
If he ever comes along, he may leave happiness or misery.
You'll never mean anything but misery to any man.
I won't make money out of the enforced labor and misery of others.
Well, this misery in my back ain't so good.
You were right to put them out of their misery.
Do put that poor darling Freddy out of his misery.
Put him out of his misery.
We are here to help Vienna to cope with its misery.
I was sent here to relieve the misery, and I see nothing but glitter, luxury and immorality!
One cannot open a door without seeing a misery in all its nakedness.
It's misery when you're away, and you come back to this sort of thing.
You can say that you know how to make our lives a misery!
Well, this misery in my back. ain't so good.

News and current affairs

Although we cannot know how many lives would be lost and how much misery would be inflicted in an invasion of Iraq to oust Saddam's regime, the cost would unquestionably be great.
The fight to eradicate misery, illiteracy, and corruption, and Islam's embrace of science, do not depend on the results of the Middle East peace process.
Continued isolation will mean generations of misery.
While climate, geography, and the colonial past share some of the blame for today's misery, most of the responsibility belongs to those African governments that have behaved so badly.
The lambs may have lost out on a few weeks of life, but they were also spared the distress of separation from their mothers, the misery of transportation, possibly for hundreds of kilometres, and the crowding and terror of the slaughterhouse.
Mailat sought escape from his Romanian misery and his Romanian past, but could not imagine that he would find in an Italian refugee camp as much misery as before; that the image in the mirror of his daily new life would be that of a killer.
His carnivalesque odyssey of totalitarianism displays a world of misery, boredom, and obedience in its dark journey to an unreachable paradise.
The shoot-out's individual competition for heroism or misery is really alien to such a team game as football, but it is accepted as a necessary way to resolve the stalemate.
If economic solutions aren't found, eventually these regions' conflicts will destabilize Europe, as millions more desperate, hopeless people eventually become radicalized and blame the West for their misery.
Ukraine's President Leonid Kuchma won re-election despite the misery of a decade of economic paralysis and widespread corruption.
The clean emerald field and freedom of the game must be opposed by the howling mob in the darkness of the stands, burning red torches and jerking between ecstatic joy and hellish misery.
Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has a good record of questioning the wisdom of the intifada that has taken too many lives and caused only misery and destruction on all sides of this enduring conflict.
Such improvement requires above all self-help, the actions of individuals who will not accept the misery of the zero hour for long.
She somehow survived, with major health complications, including permanent fistula, which will condemn her to a life of exclusion from her family and unrelieved misery.
Moreover, globalization means that the US capital market's failure spreads misery around the world.
Contrast this current condition of extended misery with the only sensible long-term solution: a pooling of IMF quotas by all eurozone countries.
Yet the good news shows that we will lose the battle against poverty and misery only if we give up, and fail to heed the intelligence and goodwill that can be mobilized today.
She will strive to enter the Oval Office - the theater of her inner, outer, and planetary misery - on her own terms.
GENEVA - The scenes of death and misery that are occurring with increasing frequency in the waters of the Mediterranean and Southeast Asia have focused renewed attention on one of mankind's oldest activities: migration.
Indeed, it would have afforded the Fund an opportunity to atone for its complicity in the creditor-driven, austerity-addled misery to which Greeks have been subject for the last five years.
The constant ability of Africa's leaders to betray their people is the root cause of Africa's current misery.
They sailed across the Atlantic to North and South America, and to places as far away as Australia, to escape misery and seek a better life for themselves and their children.
Europe's own misery and migration has become a distant (if not entirely forgotten) memory.
In these circumstances, the loss of a two-state perspective would be a recipe for further indignities and deepening misery.

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