How To Use Miser In A Sentence

The six-inch white plastic stick uses a battery-powered atomiser to create realistic puffs of "smoke," while the tip glows red with each suck. The Cigarette That’s Legal Indoors | Impact Lab
He bears misery best who hides it most.
Misers put their back and their belly into their pockets.
And while some of us will be hoping for a balmy summer to follow, that could spell more misery for many. The Sun
Sensation - seeking newspapers tried to cash in on her misery.

He always talks about her to me, and I feel so uncomfortable and miserable.
The actress is asking the court to protect her from an obsessive fan who is making her life a misery.
Many of us have tried to lose weight and failed miserably for one reason or another. The Vitality Diet
He neglected to point out that the current policies have failed miserably, in every way.
`The habitation of the great unwashed ," she finally repeated, mumbling miserably. ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
It is the sinfullest thing in the world, to forsake or destitute a plantation once in forwardness; for besides the dishonor, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons. The Essays
People feared the development would cause traffic gridlock and claimed noisy fans would make their lives a misery.
The commiserate—not 'commiserate'—the kick to our economy Archive 2004-09-05
Their solution was to have Cumbria fire service just out of shot squirting hosepipes high in the air so it would fall the right way on Hopkins who was standing looking miserable up to his thighs in the lake.
The whole atmosphere was joyful and peaceful even in damp miserable conditions.
As an author of a romantic comedy myself, I do understand that it is difficult to make the genre seem fresh after many miserable retreads.
And of course, as humans we could experience the same torment, because of our own patterns of greed and miserliness.
He stared in dumb misery at the wreckage of the car.
It makes me depressed and miserable. The Sun
Other people's fairy tales always is romantic, but my fairy tale but never be miserable.
Others complained about the miserable conditions at the shelters.
Making ourselves miserable by these cravings and wishes is the unwholesome pattern of envy.
Even one day lost in misery is a great loss, for the day will never come back again. You lose 24 hours of happiness, joy & bliss. Live each day in happiness. RVM
As to Morgan: the sooner the old bumbler is put out his own (and Wales's) misery, the better. Cheryl Gillan Shines on Question Time
The car industry in the rustbelt is miserable. Factories making thirsty pickup trucks are cutting back or closing.
Pain may create misery, pain may give you sorrow. It may trouble you today, but will be gone tomorrow. Pain has its ways; it surely comes but never stays. RVM
In the meantime, the miserable gits who can't be bothered with the print version will have to do without.
This miserableness went on as much as six or seven minutes; but it seemed a sight longer than that. The War of The Worlds
When the cup of human life is so overflowing with woe and pain and misery, it seems to me a narrow dilettanteism or downright charlatanism to devote one's self to petty or bizarre problems which can have no relation to human happiness, and to prate of self-satisfaction and self-expression. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
She looked up at him in fear, he was tall and lanky and she felt small and miserable sitting in his shadow.
Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows.
This book is an unremitting account of misery, privation, and pointlessness in a world of dun landscapes, tormenting insects, malnutrition, and cultural stagnancy.
You know how it is when to stay feels like an eternity of misery, even with the promise of a multi-tiered orchid-bestrewn imported from the UK chocolate wedding cake? June 2005
You want to look at any philosophy that millions of people subscribe to, and some bad things are going to happen - but to my knowledge "godlessness" has really only been around for about 100 years, and in that amount of time its probably led to more murder, misery and mans 'inhumanity to man than all the other "isms" ever created. Sound Politics: Obsession Shown At Cedar Park
I'm afraid to say whilst there are some good landlords and landladies in town, there are also some who need to stop looking so miserable, put a smile on their face and start offering a genuine welcome along with some value for money
Anyone who's experienced a slow and miserable house purchase or sale, or has been gazumped, will no doubt believe there must be a better process.
To the victors our sincere congratulations, to the vanquished our equally sincere commiserations.
The new computerised system, called the 'optimiser', allocates staff based on the number of customers in store at any time. Times, Sunday Times
Their light-hearted banter takes away the miseries of daily life. The Sun
Miserere mei, Deus, secundum misericordiam tuam et secundum multitudinem miserationum tuarum dele iniquitatem meam. Archive 2009-02-01
But round about the Iland, for the space of 7. or 8. moneths in a yere there floateth ise, making a miserable kind of mone, and not vnlike to mans voice, by reason of the clashing together. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
This refers to a miser, perhaps the most despised of all types in a world where generosity is the yardstick by which humanity is measured.
The presence of a collector at the church-gate annoys them because it's another reminder of their miserliness.
Yes, miserablism is quite the thing in the chancelleries these days. Hugh Muir's diary
He said the trek had been something of an ordeal over difficult terrain and there had been days of miserable weather with wind, rain and snow.
Ah, what a world entire was this lost little hamlet of Paradise, where merrymakers trod on the mourners 'heels, where the scream of the biniou drowned the floating note of the passing bell, where Misery drew the curtains of her bed and lay sleepless, listening to Gayety dancing breathless to the patter of a coquette's wooden shoes! The Maids of Paradise
We were cold, wet and thoroughly miserable.
Instead, he's refusing to do his exercises and just wallowing in his misery. The Sun
A life of poverty, tradition and religious dread suffuses songs steeped in misery and learnt by word of mouth.
They had a go at trying to lift her up as painlessly as possible and failed miserably.
Scrooge has been immortalised in the English language as the epitome of miserliness and meanness of spirit.
A miser loves gold above his life.
Two Chinese coworkers who came unasked to my filthy apartment when I was laid up with a miserable viral scunge and brought me soup, medicine and tidied the place up. Imagethief
He was more miserly with titles than any sovereign since Elizabeth I - ensuring, for example, that dukedoms were reserved for the royal family alone.
In the special, Snow Miser controlled cold weather all over Earth; his archnemesis is his step brother, Heat Miser. WN.com - Articles related to Don't fry in the sun
It was a miserable excuse for a meal.
He sounded lonely, miserable and desperate, and even sang, 'We Can Work it Out' into the answerphone. U.K. Inquiry Hears Heather Mills's Phone-Hack Claims
Sed quando plene habent dominium super eos, si aliquid promiserunt eis nihil obseruant: sed quascunque possunt congrue occasiones inueniunt contra eos. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Do you live with or work with or are you married to a real misery guts?
gentled" him all over his miserable frame, as he lay panting and overpowered on the sawdust, conquered and convinced at last, all his mistakes and misconceptions of other people came before him, as plainly as if Taffy himself had spoken them; so plainly, that he wondered at himself. Parables From Nature
Nesse período, um número significativo de pessoas trocou a condição de miséria pela de pobreza ou deixou a situação de pobreza para se inserir na baixa classe média. Global Voices in English » Brazil: Petroleum, elections and poverty matters
During the long and miserable forty days of Lent, desirable edibles such as eggs and butter were not permitted to be eaten.
Weak light filters in through stained glass and creates deep shadows among the pews and misericords.
Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery. Anne Frank
Faced with the reality of being alone for the first time she talked openly and honestly with John about her feelings: her disgust with herself, her fear of failing at her job, her growing conviction that her childlessness was a punishment, and the frequent wish that she could simply die and put an end to her misery. Alcohol and The Addictive Brain
As such, they can do with inputs from an Advisory Board which meets once a quarter or so to review the business and [...] - In ongoing work to identify how genes interact with social environments to impact human health, UCLA researchers have discovered what they describe as a biochemical link between misery and death. Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
Extremists will forever be able to demagogue conditions of misery, making continued U.S. involvement in asymmetric warfare an increasingly counterproductive exercise — because killing one terrorist creates five more in his place. Facebook Says…
It is absurd and morally indefensible to continue with a policy that causes so much hardship, misery and wastes councils' time and resources. Times, Sunday Times
There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself. Laurell K. Hamilton
Voluspa," or Song of the Prophetess, a kind of sibylline lay, which contains an account of the creation, the origin of man and of evil, and concludes with a prediction of the destruction and renovation of the universe, and a description of the future abodes of happiness and misery. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
To be weak is miserable,Doing or suffering. John Milton
To be fair, with hindsight I would not have done the masters which is currently making my life a misery.
Illegal workers have to accept terribly low wages, miserable working conditions, and essentially no benefits.
Naturalistic animals were carved on misericords in the early 14th century, and individualized facial features appeared on the small human heads that decorated keystones and arch mouldings.
O'Driscoll does a great job of sketching out the characters, their relationships and filling their miserable lives with the kind of dread and unease that you can almost taste at the back of your tongue but when it comes time to move this story out of 'grim social realism' and into 'Horror' it all rather falls apart amidst random snowmen, which is a real pity as up until that ending, the story was going great guns. REVIEW: Black Static #16
If all they've done is suffer an unhappy marriage, we should leave them to their marital misery.
The Bulgaria striker squandered two glorious chances either side of the interval and those misses summed up a miserable season. Times, Sunday Times
I took a series of badly paid secretarial jobs which made me really miserable.
It's anyone's guess, then, why he leaves his instruments dormant for much of this show in favour of splenetic rants and ruthless aggression towards his increasingly miserable audience.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
It seems to me very miserable not to resolve on some course and act accordingly. Middlemarch
When I admitted to a miser 's thrift, you never asked a thing, but I would spend my life to shoe your feet and love the last moment of it. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
I even had a dream that proved premonitory, in which I did go home for the holidays and I was miserable.
It means that mourners feel especially freakish and isolated, often even unentitled to speak of their misery. Times, Sunday Times
She could do nothing for herself, she could only obey Joan's dictates, and this she did in listless misery. That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story
Eius amīcī longē absunt et misera puella est sōla. Latin for Beginners
But several instances have come to my knowledge, in which Union men of a sterner cast than those described as acquiescing compromisers were defeated in the election, and, aside from Report on the Condition of the South
These were wild and miserable thoughts; but I cannot describe to you how the eternal twinkling of the stars weighed upon me, and how I listened to every blast of wind, as if it were a dull ugly siroc on its way to consume me. Chapter 17
Inn host is very miserly, what give everyday is dietary and very few.
I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they could not bring us to enjoy life, they would at least teach us to endure it. The Vicar of Wakefield
Misery of the most exquisite kind was tearing her heart in pieces, stabbing her throat with long, forklike pains. Rose O'Paradise
We permitted millions of people to die or be reduced to misery and pauperdom.
And with the discretion of rare breeding she carries into the haunts of vice and miserable intrigue the Italian byword: _Orecchie spalancate, e bocca stretta_. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
And the men appeared, some of his watch, others of the second mate's watch, routed from sleep -- men coatless, and hatless, and bootless; men ghastly-faced with fear but eager for once to spring to the orders of the man who knew and could save their miserable lives from miserable death. CHAPTER XXXVIII
Misery is almost always the result of thinking. Joseph Joubert
Not that he ever cooks for journalists, the miserable old codger.
Because of this fact alone I should not commend the diversion of moving save to people of very ample means as well as perfect leisure; there are more reasons than the misery of flitting why the dweller in the kilderkin should not covet the hogshead reeking of claret. Suburban Sketches
The mandolin player at lower left is the artist himself; in other drawings he is pictured looking miserable with a banjo. The Times Literary Supplement
Anne is miserable, alternating between laughing and despairing.
He had passed an unsettled life in continued exile up to his eightieth year; having been harassed with many contumelies and injuries, he had endured with difficulty a miserable and anxious existence, in continual trepidation; famine had driven him out of the land whither he had gone, by the command and under the auspices of God, into Egypt. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
I fully expect in the future we shall have misery memoirs written by parents. The Sun
It's ridiculous and it is making me depressed and miserable. The Sun
He was born in a miserable family.
I mean tragedy in the classical sense in which the hero's misery is embedded in his triumph.
This is why, Majrouh wrote, landays are "a cry of separation" from the idea of love and a revelation of the misery of misalliance.
Those who are put off by misery memoirs in general should avoid it. Times, Sunday Times
He simply didn't wish to degrade either of their sensibilities with points of commiseration.
She had felt detached from all the open grieving and eulogizing and commiserating as though she had been watching events unfold from the director's chair behind the camera. The Painter's Wife, a short story
Deus cum ex mero suo beneplacito nonnullos ad vitam aeternam ab omni retro aeternitate elegisset, foedus gratiae cum eis iniit; se nempe liberaturum eos e statu peccati ac miseriae, atque in statum salutis per redemptorem translaturum. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
Tantum tunc temporis in miserrimos mortales potentiae et crudelis Tyrannidis Satan exercuit. Anatomy of Melancholy
His absence had regained for him much of that aureola of saintship which had been nearly abstracted during her reproachful mood on that miserable journey from London. A Pair of Blue Eyes
Organized psychiatry must publicly articulate our vision, positions and commitment to the amelioration of human misery.
A diet full of junk food, overeating and high amounts of caffeine was making him stressed out and miserable. The Sun
Britain's voters have now just about got it clear in their heads that these particular politicians are not omnicompetent either, but, having now lost faith in the whole idea of omnicompetence (good) don't know what to do about it except be miserable (bad).
I think you should put the poor creature out of its misery.
It's absurd things like that that balance the movie off its pain-film miserableness; this is a really funny movie, despite the constant stream of tragedy, loss, degradation and soul-shattering identity crisis its characters undergo.
I was feeling miserable and crotchety and on the point of collapse.
In the timehonoured tradition of the northern miserabilist, it would be depressing were it not for its sweet centre. Times, Sunday Times
The wet summers over the past few years have piled on their misery. Times, Sunday Times
The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery. Alexander Pope
Misery is almost always the result of thinking. Joseph Joubert
Domo autem sic accensa, socius meus et famulus de domo exierunt, et me solum cum ossibus dimiserunt, qui videns ignem supra me, ossa accepi et cum illis in angulos domus recollegi. The Journal of Friar Odoric
Teenage troublemakers who are causing upset in a corner of Morecambe are being warned against inflicting further misery on residents.
Nowhere was it tried - and I mean real socialism, not welfare statism - where tyranny, misery, poverty, fear and oppression failed to follow.
As though poor Azoka had not enough misery, her mother took away her trinkets to decorate the bear, and forced her to smear her pretty, ochred face with cinders. Fort Amity
But in an incredible marketing feat the Scottish Tourist Board and Scottish Screen are now advertising the sheer miserableness of Scotland in a bid to attract film crews and tourists.
All that money brought nothing but sadness and misery and tragedy.
In some schedules a solo is worth more if you bid it over a previous call of misère or piek.
After a few miserable days at Flensburg, trying to make himself agreeable to Doenitz and to assert his importance; suffering humiliations that were a constant source of embarrassment to his staff; and deserted by many of his closest companions who had already set off on their private journeys to ranch cattle in the Argentine or collect butterflies in Switzerland, Barbarossa
The fight for survival was the topical issue in Italy after World War II and privations, hardships and misery were everywhere.
By talking to young people the LSPCA hoped to promote the importance of neutering their pets to reduce the hundreds of animals living in misery.
My Friends endeavoured to rally me out of this what they called sulky mood; I replied that I could not help it, that I should never again be happy till it was discovered who it was that took my bed-fellow's Money; and that its being lost while I was his bed fellow, certainly threw a sort of suspicion on me, that I could not get over, and to labour under which rendered me completely miserable. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1
When I toddled off to college in the East many years ago after having been raised in the South, I had a miserable time in my advanced Spanish class. Como se dice "plumber"? & discusson of Dictionaries
Why regret that I lived miserably yesterday. Rather, why not commit and resolve to live happily today. RVM
They are taking advantage of people 's misery. The Sun
Whether mourning the miseries of war, praying for divine help or preparing herself for death, it seemed as if her life as a writer was at its end.
It was just like that miserable S.O.B. to have his calls screened, Belinda thought. Omnibus
As I start to wonder about the legitimacy of the test, Alain becomes altogether more aggressive, demanding what I plan to do about the advanced state of misery and moral turpitude in which I have found myself.
Others nearly as large found their way to the weigh station as well, despite absolutely miserable conditions.
Hurt and deeply jealous, she stalked him for 18 months causing misery and harassment to the pair.
The poor man wants much, the miser everything.
We used to think of fellows not for what they were but for what they did -- except, perhaps, a few miserable sneaks, who ` carnied 'up to a fellow because he had a handle to his name. The Three Midshipmen
Fearless, lawless and sowing misery with a careless abandon, their reign seems uncontested. Times, Sunday Times
The disembodied voices were most striking - patients' miserable repeated calls for help, muted protests, inarticulate moans, and whimpers.
He and Wazzock have decided to team up with the common goal of inflicting some misery on the troubled teenager.
It could result in a lifetime membership of misery and droopy mammaries.
The Japanese staff bowed their heads in abject misery. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
It has a few pitiful wretches for clubs, places which would, in Manchester, have been put out of their misery long ago.
Well, at least the person who did such a miserable job ended up in stir for defrauding another customer.
This was not the only source of misery that became apparent in the course of our conversation.
I am abhorrently evil and I feed on misery and death This would have made EXCELLENT ammo against the inhuman, barbarian right-wing devils who eat babies. Matthew Yglesias » Goldfarb Endorses Terrorist Ethics
He had no realistic chance of holing his bunker shot, but a shank is really a miserable way to finish at a U.S. Open.
Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate this
Szentkuthy stood as a beacon in this darkness of misery and cruelty.
Some countries have witnessed concentration of capital among agroexporters alongside the marginalization and immiseration of small-scale producers and processors.
He lives a miserable life, tormented by his aunt and uncle and his spoiled cousin.
It is they who make her undergo the discomforts or miseries of what we call conventional life or bully her into exile or death. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
Luckily with condolences it wasn't necessary to go into detail -- all she need do was commiserate on the tragic accident. PROSPECT HILL
Hoc posito quod aliae medicina non valeant, ista tune Dei misericordia valebit, et est medicina coronata, quae secretissime tenentur. Anatomy of Melancholy
The pay cut came after the miserable winter weather sent claims soaring. Times, Sunday Times
Spread-betters were looking to profit from the misery of football punters by buying the share prices of the bookmakers. Times, Sunday Times
The miser was untouched by the poor man's story.
Their deception has inflicted immeasurable pain and misery on the victims. The Sun
Who would wish a life of loveless misery upon a warm-hearted, sensitive young girl?
When Patrick Douglas, the learned and honoured, but fortuneless soldier, found that his new competitor for the hand of the gentle Jolande was none other than his sovereign, he was dumb with despair, and the last, the miserable _hope_ which it imparts, and which maketh wretched, began to leave him. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17
It might have been cold up north, but at least it was sunny - down here it is cold, wet and miserable.
She looked rather strained and miserable.
He racked off a miserable story.
For the price of an entrée, she serves up all the splendors and miseries of restaurant life prepared to a fare-thee-well.
The same prospect of misery hung over the head of another tenant of this hard - hearted lord of the soil.
You may trot around with a silver bunch of grapes on your lapel, peddling intoxicants to expense-account tosspots and huff when I quibble at the mark-up but I have just published the novelistic fruit of 35 years of miserable introversion.
utterly miserable
And whether he won or not women flung themselves into embraces with him and either kissed him commiseratingly or in a frenzy of delight. The Weapon Shops of Isher
I speak to him briefly on the phone; he has chickenpox and sounds miserable.
The finest tackle in the world won't catch you fish if you are so cold and miserable that concentration has dropped as low as the temperature.
The food was standard hotel fare, failing miserably to live up to the mouth-watering eloquence of the descriptions on the menu.
Must you pester me now even after we're out of that thrice damned school and make my life more miserable?
During the meeting, there were members who were accommodator, avoider, competitor and compromiser, but no collaborator.
Why was this bad-tempered, miserly, sleepless bachelor so capable of rising above both religious and scientific prejudices, with practical and theoretical insights that are still valuable today?
Your erratic behaviour is setting them up for potential future misery. Times, Sunday Times
But, alas, the printed word can not adequately convey the panting, gasping misery of this particular torment.
Putting him out of his misery is as much a crime as finishing off a wounded enemy. Times, Sunday Times
The setting is one of abject poverty and misery, yet the upbeat caption tells us that even victims of disaster need a good shoeshine.
The money the miser hoards will do him no good.
He spent a lot of his life philandering, that is to say, cheating on my mom, making her insanely miserable.
Why do the vast tribes of India, deceived and enslaved by the bonzes, trampled upon by the descendant of a Tartar, bowed down by labor, groaning in misery, assailed by diseases, and a mark for all the scourges and plagues of life, still fondly cling to that life? A Philosophical Dictionary
Miserably behind in its contribution to the building of the cathedral.
What would be accepted as evidence if not disease, madness, misery, irrationality, frustration, criminality and sickness, that a tragic disparateness now exists between the needs of human beings and the imperatives of society. Rogue Of Gor
His action has already caused the premature death of 700,000 birds with miserly compensation to owners.
A couple have vowed not to be pushed out of their own street by gangs of youths they say have made their lives a misery for years.
It was, almost, as if he was exulting in our miseries.
Talmudists speak much, and hyperbolically enough: which nevertheless they confess to be turned long since into miserable barrenness; but are dim-sighted as to the true cause of it. From the Talmud and Hebraica
Doug Robertson and I commiserated about it once, only he took the idea and Dirty Snowflake Apparel was born. Hooping.org | Blog | Hooping Clothes For Guys: Dirty Snowflake
It is still a tale of thwarted hopes and suppressed unhappiness, but the misery she reveals is calamitous only in its traumatic effects on one family.
And the men appeared, some of his watch, others of the second mate's watch, routed from sleep -- men coatless, and hatless, and bootless; men ghastly-faced with fear but eager for once to spring to the orders of the man who knew and could save their miserable lives from miserable death. CHAPTER XXXVIII
I walked on, feeling sick to the stomach as I saw so much misery and ruination.
The I understanding the cause of his miserable estate, sayd unto him, In faith thou art worthy to sustaine the most extreame misery and calamity, which hast defiled and maculated thyne owne body, forsaken thy wife traitorously, and dishonoured thy children, parents, and friends, for the love of a vile harlot and old strumpet. The Golden Asse
What's particularly interesting about this mailer is that the "Hooverville," of course, was a symbol of government inaction in the face of the poverty and widespread misery of the Great Depression. Right-wing group's mailer warns of "Obamavilles"
a separation from God, and a consignation over to eternal miseries? Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.
Phil sat huddled miserably in his chair.

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