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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

... Means the State of the Church in North Carolina is very miserable; which is of greatest Moment, and requires the most charitable Direction and Christian Assistance; not only for the Conversion of the Indians and Baptism of Negroes there, but for the Christening and Recovery ...

— The Present State of Virginia • Hugh Jones

... He's always tied to a stake on a rope just long enough to go across the river. His only friends are the crocodiles, who say 'Hello' to him once a week if they don't forget. Really, he's the most miserable animal I've ever come across. When I left I promised I'd try to help him someday, although I couldn't see how. The rope around his neck is about the biggest, toughest rope you can imagine, with so many knots it would take days ...

— My Father's Dragon • Ruth Stiles Gannett

... in this country, and, with scarce an exception, the deadliest opponents to the very indepindence that we have benn jist spakin about. For the most part, they are filled chock full of a pack of miserable toadies to the governmint, which manages to gather into them a pack of rottin, ladin Irishmin who can make speeches, dhrink 'the day and all who honor it,' sing 'God save the Queen,' and talk English blatherskite about the glory of the impire, the army and navy, and everythin else ...

— Ridgeway - An Historical Romance of the Fenian Invasion of Canada • Scian Dubh

... am not able," exclaimed Marianne, with a loud burst of anguish, "I have but six francs; if I give them, nothing is left me, and my pension is not paid until six weeks. But even were I to give all I have, my miserable six francs would not ...

— The Empress Josephine • Louise Muhlbach

... Prince Geoffrey, another of the king's sons, came to a miserable end. He was killed in a tournament. He was riding furiously in the tournament in the midst of a great number of other horsemen, when he was unfortunately thrown from his steed, and trodden to death on the ...

— Richard I - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott

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