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Miserable

adjective

1.

Very unhappy; full of misery. Synonyms: suffering, wretched. "A message of hope for suffering humanity" , "Wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"

2.

Deserving or inciting pity. Synonyms: hapless, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched. "Miserable victims of war" , "The shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic" , "Piteous appeals for help" , "Pitiable homeless children" , "A pitiful fate" , "Oh, you poor thing" , "His poor distorted limbs" , "A wretched life"

3.

Of the most contemptible kind. Synonyms: abject, low, low-down, scummy, scurvy. "A low stunt to pull" , "A low-down sneak" , "His miserable treatment of his family" , "You miserable skunk!" , "A scummy rabble" , "A scurvy trick"

4.

Of very poor quality or condition. Synonyms: deplorable, execrable, woeful, wretched. "Woeful treatment of the accused" , "Woeful errors of judgment"

5.

Characterized by physical misery. Synonym: wretched. "Spent a wretched night on the floor"

6.

Contemptibly small in amount. Synonyms: measly, paltry. "The company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief" , "A paltry wage" , "Almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"

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"Miserable" Quotes from Famous Books

... produce this almost total lack of interest in economic subjects. One was the miserable condition of society, still only partially rescued from the ravages of the barbarians, and half organised, almost without industry and commerce; the other was the absence of all economic tradition. The existence of the Categories and Hermenia of Aristotle ensured that the chain of logical study ...

— An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching • George O'Brien

... self-centred! I was. For thirteen whole years I thought of nothing but myself, my miserable self, all shut up in that little town. I talked to no one. I did not even read—I used to sit in the dark of the cathedral nave and listen to the organ. I'd walk in the orchards and the woods. I would wonder, wonder, wonder about people and I grew more and more frightened ...

— The Dark Forest • Hugh Walpole

... nothing on our hands, Hugh, we can turn our attention to this miserable business ...

— The Chums of Scranton High Out for the Pennant • Donald Ferguson

... thought it would contribute to this end, or, in other words, would serve to frighten other nations from approaching such an inhospitable coast, everywhere beset with rocks absolutely void of water, and inhabited by a race of savages more barbarous, and, at the same time, more miserable than any other creatures in ...

— Early Australian Voyages • John Pinkerton

... home, I said to myself, 'what is the use, nobody knows it, and why should I be so miserable?' I resolved to throw off the hated burden, and, going into the pleasant parlor, I talked and laughed as if nothing were the matter. But the load on my poor ...

— The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls • Various

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