How To Use Miserable In A Sentence
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He always talks about her to me, and I feel so uncomfortable and miserable.
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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
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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.
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The whole atmosphere was joyful and peaceful even in damp miserable conditions.
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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.
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It makes me depressed and miserable.
The Sun
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Other people's fairy tales always is romantic, but my fairy tale but never be miserable.
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Others complained about the miserable conditions at the shelters.
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Making ourselves miserable by these cravings and wishes is the unwholesome pattern of envy.
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The car industry in the rustbelt is miserable. Factories making thirsty pickup trucks are cutting back or closing.
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In the meantime, the miserable gits who can't be bothered with the print version will have to do without.
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This miserableness went on as much as six or seven minutes; but it seemed a sight longer than that.
The War of The Worlds
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She looked up at him in fear, he was tall and lanky and she felt small and miserable sitting in his shadow.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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We were cold, wet and thoroughly miserable.
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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
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It was a miserable excuse for a meal.
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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
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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
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During the long and miserable forty days of Lent, desirable edibles such as eggs and butter were not permitted to be eaten.
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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
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To be weak is miserable,Doing or suffering. John Milton
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Illegal workers have to accept terribly low wages, miserable working conditions, and essentially no benefits.
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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
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The Bulgaria striker squandered two glorious chances either side of the interval and those misses summed up a miserable season.
Times, Sunday Times
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I took a series of badly paid secretarial jobs which made me really miserable.
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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.
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
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It seems to me very miserable not to resolve on some course and act accordingly.
Middlemarch
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I even had a dream that proved premonitory, in which I did go home for the holidays and I was miserable.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Not that he ever cooks for journalists, the miserable old codger.
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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
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Anne is miserable, alternating between laughing and despairing.
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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
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It's ridiculous and it is making me depressed and miserable.
The Sun
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He was born in a miserable family.
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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
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A diet full of junk food, overeating and high amounts of caffeine was making him stressed out and miserable.
The Sun
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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).
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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.
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I was feeling miserable and crotchety and on the point of collapse.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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It was just like that miserable S.O.B. to have his calls screened, Belinda thought.
Omnibus
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Others nearly as large found their way to the weigh station as well, despite absolutely miserable conditions.
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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
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The disembodied voices were most striking - patients' miserable repeated calls for help, muted protests, inarticulate moans, and whimpers.
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Well, at least the person who did such a miserable job ended up in stir for defrauding another customer.
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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.
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He lives a miserable life, tormented by his aunt and uncle and his spoiled cousin.
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The pay cut came after the miserable winter weather sent claims soaring.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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It might have been cold up north, but at least it was sunny - down here it is cold, wet and miserable.
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She looked rather strained and miserable.
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He racked off a miserable story.
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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.
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utterly miserable
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I speak to him briefly on the phone; he has chickenpox and sounds miserable.
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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.
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Must you pester me now even after we're out of that thrice damned school and make my life more miserable?
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He spent a lot of his life philandering, that is to say, cheating on my mom, making her insanely miserable.
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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
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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
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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
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To this machine four miserable garrons, with perhaps a pair of oxen, were yoked abreast.
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Cities can make you feel cheerful or miserable.
Times, Sunday Times
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In magazines the ‘before’ photo always features the subject looking vacant, cross-eyed and miserable with massive bags under their eyes.
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Three boffins studied the miserable singer's musings on love, friendship and loss.
The Sun
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The most miserable of those who inhabited the hovel were a family of four persons, consisting of father, mother, and two daughters, already well grown, all four of whom were lodged in the same attic, one of the cells which we have already mentioned.
Les Miserables
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Get set for the most miserable, petty, bitchy and nasty few weeks you've ever experienced.
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Just look at Gordon Brown's fat miserable face when he sits down at around 7: 47; not a cheerful chappy is he?
Archive 2008-07-01
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I saw Margaret this morning looking as miserable as sin.
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Above 6,500 feet can be found altocumulus ("clumps or rolls") and altostratus (a "drab and featureless" haze), as well as the storm clouds nimbostratus ("dim, miserable") and cumulonimbus ("the shape of a blacksmith's anvil").
Cirrus Concerns
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If you try to ease your guilty conscience by telling her what happened, she will be miserable and it will almost certainly put paid to your friendship.
The Sun
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Each day as he made his appearance at noon in the captain's cabin, he had to wait in miserable state his hour and a half; or two hours, and then to meet the gibing salutation of the captain, of; "Not dead yet, doctor?" with his jokes upon the invaliding suit.
Rattlin the Reefer
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Sunup to sundown, hard, miserable work, but we managed to get it done.
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The man, with a rust-colored mustache, was utterly unsmiling and miserable-looking.
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The bacon roll was a dry and miserable item, unbuttered and containing a single rasher.
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You would think the miserable little people who foist this politically correct left wing stupidity upon us would considering applying for citizenship elsewhere.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Quite a Warning Label
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And some miserable being, to secure the great object of his ambition, has frontlessly presented it as a sure and glorious passport to success over the head of a rival, who was so unfortunate
The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. II
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Wherfore we, wretched and miserable synners, render unto thee most humble and hartie thankes, that yt hath pleased thee to call us home to thy folde by thy Fatherly correction at this present, wheras in our prosperitie and libertie we dyd neglect thy graces offered unto us.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
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This point deserves attention, not for the sake of the miserable and ruinous advantage which is obtained by taunting an adversary in controversy with inconsistency till you drive him to improve his logical position by increasing the exactingness of his demands, but because the advocates of Home Rule (honestly enough, no doubt) confuse the matter under discussion by a strange kind of intellectual shuffle.
England's Case Against Home Rule
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What they almost all had in common was that they cost a lot of money, made you miserable and resulted in staggeringly insubstantial weight losses that were completely negated by your drinking a glass of water.
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Stuart has suffered a miserable run of luck with injuries over the last year.
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I want to be outside, but not with him there - and the thought of going to lunch by myself is so depressing that I'm miserable all over again.
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The Bulgaria striker squandered two glorious chances either side of the interval and those misses summed up a miserable season.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's nothin 'looks more miserabler than a good suit of clothes with a dirty neck fornenst it.
The Second Chance
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I lost, and was miserable for the rest of the day.
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It was very cold, damp and miserable.
The Golden Thread - Asian experiences of post-Raj Britain
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Sometimes he would put an amazing amount of effort into making my life miserable.
Times, Sunday Times
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In some respects it was a miserable existence.
The Sun
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I would ask you, Messer Cicero and Messer Seneca, whose dog-eared volumes I see scattered upon the floor, of what use is it for me to know better than any master of the Mint or a Jew of the Pont-aux-Change that a gold crown piece is worth thirty-five unzain at twenty-five sous eight deniers parisis each, if I have not a single miserable black liard to risk upon the double-six?
IV. Fate. Book VII
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I also have duller symptoms like a sore throat and earache, and the miserable conviction that this ailment will probably last for my entire holiday.
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All those beans, chickpeas, lentils and vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, eggplant and onions gave me such gas I was miserable.
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He was miserable and moody, frustrated and just plain rude, insulting anyone who gave him the slightest reason.
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He was a miserable old devil.
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Not that I should die, but perhaps sink into a state of betweenity, neither well nor ill, in which I should observe nothing, and be very miserable besides.
Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle
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In one place we read of the surprisal of an Indian fort in the night, when the wigwams were wrapped in flames, and the miserable inhabitants shot down and slain in attempting to escape, “all being despatched and ended in the course of an hour.”
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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Every guy that's ever put on a jockstrap has gone through it, no matter how good you are, and they're just miserable things.
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I hope they show how weight loss need not entail a bleak, miserable existence?
Times, Sunday Times
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The way the English deal with their current law - and how they enforce closing time by bellowing at poor drinkers - smacks of a mean streak of miserableness.
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One of them, named Song, was deeply touched by the words that described his miserable life counter to his warm heart, bringing tears to her eyes.
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The escutcheons of the proud old knights are still carved over the doors, whence issue these miserable greasy hucksters and pedlars.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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See: 'By the by, what a miserable language is our English in some respects; so awkward, so incompact!
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2
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How can I keep a family on such a miserable wage?
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-- Rolland, I think, was the founder of these modern Franciscans, and with this miserable affectation he machinated the death of the King, and, during some months, procured for himself the exclusive direction of the government.
A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part II., 1793 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
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You may be stuck with a miserable existence for the rest of your life.
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After almost two years of occupation, and miserable living conditions, we want our country back.
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It was a miserable, harrowing experience for those involved.
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He added that the gaps in knowledge were far too large once they got there and it made the rest of their time at the university miserable.
Times, Sunday Times
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And as a miserable apode fallen to earth, he would never have been raised, had not the cock, as an instrument of divine providence, struck his ears with its voice, at the same instant in which his sweet
Treatise on the Love of God
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From what little I could see, it looked warm and cozy on this miserable day.
NO BODY
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Easter had been wet, windy and miserable anyway, and the Beggar and its feeder becks were already to bank level when the freak storm hit the side of Tup Fell and turned swollen into overflowing.
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
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Some people make themselves miserable and everybody else miserable when they can rather make themselves happy and everybody else happy. RVM
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Now, miserable black dwellings, a black canal, and sick black towers of chimneys; now, a trim garden, where the flowers were bright and fair; now, a wilderness of hideous altars all a-blaze; now, the water meadows with their fairy rings; now, the mangy patch of unlet building ground outside the stagnant town, with the larger ring where the
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
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It's no good trying to soft soap my father; he's miserable old devil.
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I should have your throat cut for cowardice you miserable wretch!
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Mr. D'Antoni said he could not remember a bigger game in his Knicks tenure — and few would disagree, since Mr. D'Antoni has been at the helm for two miserable seasons where the focus was on alary cap space and not basketball.
Knicks Make a Strong Statement in Defeat
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Englebert's own songs seem to emerge from the angst of a man who is unashamed of confessing he feels hopelessly miserable without love.
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All of them converged with one common purpose: Make life miserable for quarterback Jeff Hostetler.
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Visibility isn't the point since it's often lousy and if you get seasick all those boats bobbing about in the harbour can make you pretty miserable.
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Thick dialect, foul language and miserable shenanigans are all present and correct.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why not just close both levels and sell sleeping bags you miserable cold-hearted bastards?
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He has fallen down and worshipped that miserable 'Ich' of his, and made that, and not God's will, the centre and root of his philosophy, his poetry, and his self-idolizing æsthetics; and when it fails him, then for prussic acid, and nonentity.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
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Both seemed downcast and miserable and were staying together for the sake of their teenage son.
Times, Sunday Times
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The biting flies, from the saltmarsh that abuts the Seaview Marriott course, often make life miserable for players and spectators alike.
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the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief
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You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice. Gordon B. Hinckley
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The film was a miserable commercial failure both in Italy and in the United States.
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Living as she is was miserable and lonely with no friends or loved ones to care about her.
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I am so miserable and unhappy.
Times, Sunday Times
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A day came when she was feeling listless and miserable, and as if in answer to her need, the sight of a gaily coloured open carriage broke her mood like a bubble.
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Two minutes later, it was sleeting and hailing, we were both soaked to the skin, and we were both miserable.
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How amatory God contingency be to have bestowed this ray of light in to his miserable life.
Archive 2009-11-01
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Sometimes he would put an amazing amount of effort into making my life miserable.
Times, Sunday Times
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The time will soon come; grief and famine have already sapped the foundations of my being; a very short time, and I shall have passed away; unstained by the crime of self-destruction, unstung by the memory of degradation, my spirit will throw aside the miserable coil, and find such recompense as fortitude and resignation may deserve.
The Last Man
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Apparently if they failed to tighten a wheelnut to the correct torque there was an infinitessimal chance that the wheel might reach critical mass due to vibration and, thanks to the rotational velocity of the circumferential mass, collapse into a black hole, causing untold damage to the universe and wiping our miserable, H&S mad, planet out of existence.
You Heard It Here First (Bulbgate) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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While the Saints built their first temple, neighbors made life miserable and the Mormons neared bankruptcy.
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The political differences from then are obvious: in 1977 the Labour government was well on its way to becoming a miserable, unsupportable spectacle with 20 long years in the wilderness.
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It is also used as a slang/familiar word for a bedroom that looks more like a junk room where everything is on top of each other - also used for a miserable bedsit, a small, uncomfortable & untidy house.
Stagiaire - French Word-A-Day
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Working when our friends or family are present is enough to transform a miserable experience into a pleasurable one.
Times, Sunday Times
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Weel, weel," muttered David, as they continued their walk through the miserable region, "I've gane an 'gie'd her a' the siller I had i 'my pouch.
The Garret and the Garden
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The fourth day out, I think (we were then working down the east side of the Gulf of Siam, tack for tack, in light winds and smooth water) -- the fourth day, I say, of this miserable juggling with the unavoidable, as we sat at our evening meal, that man, whose slightest movement I dreaded, after putting down the dishes ran up on deck busily.
The Secret Sharer
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During the many relief visits I paid that winter in tenement houses and miserable lodgings, I was constantly shadowed by a certain sense of shame that I should be comfortable in the midst of such distress.
Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
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Hawthorn have ended a miserable week with an agonising 12-point defeat to Carlton in a thrilling encounter at Docklands in Melbourne.
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The only thing worse than unimaginative lottery winners are miserable lottery winners.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't really want to tell her to get lost but listening to her boasting makes me feel really miserable.
The Sun
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As he was going to the place of execution, he still looked graver and mote concerned; though he did not fall into those agonies of sighing and tears as some do, but seemed to bear his miserable state with great composedness and resignation, saying he had repented as well as he could in the short time allowed him, suffering the same day with the two last mentioned malefactors.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
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This miserable creature --- Wesley deduced --- was none other than the fabulously bewhiskered Path- finder).
BEHINDLINGS
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Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man. Joyce Meyer
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It's ridiculous and it is making me depressed and miserable.
The Sun
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And truely this rage of loue was the only meane to dulcorate and make swete the bitter gal of griefe whiche those twoo louers felte, defatigated almoste with tedious trauaile, iudging their wearinesse a pastime and pleasure, being guided by that vnconstante captaine, whiche maketh dolts and fooles wyse men, emboldeneth the weake hearted and cowardes, fortifieth the feeble, and to be shorte, vntieth the pursses and bagges of couetous Carles and miserable Misers.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
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The denying and withholding of common mercies is itself judgment enough, there needs no more to make a people miserable.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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A famous and witty harlequin of France was overcome with hypochondriasm, and consulted a physician, who, after inquiring about his malady, told his miserable patient, that he knew of no other medicine for him than to take frequent doses of Carlin -- "I am Carlin himself," exclaimed the melancholy man, in despair.
Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
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One exercise ably demonstrated that if we feel miserable and worthless then that's how we will be.
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But I was miserable, depressed.
The Sun
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Come forth miserableand wash the Iroquois paint from your face and stand before the Hurons.
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Though Margaret Mary reveled in the pleasure of no longer being bedridden, life at home had become truly miserable.
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Here was a little piece of miserable, gnawing confirmation.
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All those beans, chickpeas, lentils and vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, eggplant and onions gave me such gas I was miserable.
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Clearly, these kinds of images of the miserable at play will evoke horror in the minds of every sane person.
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Four days after this learned 'lucubration' the voice of the warm-hearted magistrate speaks in a reminder of the prevailing abject misery of the London poor who “in the most miserable lingering Manner do daily perish for Want in this Metropolis.”
Henry Fielding A Memoir
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The mice sat in a row, hunched forward, looking miserable.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you're miserable on the inside, a teeny-weeny nose or super-duper frontage is not going to make a blind bit of difference.
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I don't mind disclosing to you that I've had a really miserable weekend for one reason or another - I've got Monday off work, but frankly I'd rather be at work than hanging around here moping around.
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The few lives that I had come across were miserable ones, pitiable creatures who had no hope left to live on with.
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This is funny because of the errant values Bob has accumulated over the course of his miserable life, and because of the extreme situation to which it is applied.
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'Have the goodness to tell that conceited girl there, that her headgear is the most miserable that ever was seen.'
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
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If the TV moguls are right and we only want to watch miserable people wallowing in self-pity, then why not simply watch the news?
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He gives you some great gig in which you make a whole heap of money, and you're just on top of the world and on every magazine cover, but your personal life is miserable.
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He was miserable and moody, frustrated and just plain rude, insulting anyone who gave him the slightest reason.
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She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage
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I ask you only to go with us, and leave this miserable desert country, where there is no society, and where you are so entirely unsphered.
Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment viii, 9-151, [1] p.
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She added that the family is living in miserable conditions and there very few people who are willing to help during the time of distress and pain.
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Meanwhile, Drumpellier's miserable start to the season continued as they were skittled for just 82 by Stenhousemuir at the Tryst.
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My legs, which I was already teetering on with dubious balance, seemed to give out and I collapsed, curling into a miserable ball under the glass.
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We are shown into a miserable garret, and introduced to a vulgar, illiterate, cockneyfied, dirty, dandified linendraper's shopman, in the person of _Tittlebat Titmouse_.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841
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This contrasts so markedly with the niggardly travel concessions in this city and the miserable potential offer for the possible future by the miserly Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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As for Ester, she prayed, in her clothes-press, thankfully for Dr. Douglass, more hopefully for Sadie, and knew not that a corner of the poor little letter which had slipped from Julia's hand and floated down the stream one summer morning, thereby causing her such a miserable, _miserable_ day, was lying at that moment in Dr. Douglass 'note-book, counted as the most precious of all his precious bits of paper.
Ester Ried
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I felt my life slowly escape my poor, frail and wasted body and I was miserable.
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She has explored the isles of the ocean for objects of commiseration; but, amazing stupidity! she can gaze without emotion on a multitude of miserable beings at home, large enough to constitute a nation of freemen, whom tyranny has heathenized by law.
William Lloyd Garrison
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I don't really want to tell her to get lost but listening to her boasting makes me feel really miserable.
The Sun
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I won my game shortly after getting back that service, and their coach looked pretty miserable at the end.
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They were all miserable efforts, but at least the least bad one won through in the end.
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But there in the middle of all this fanciness and frippery was this miserable, small, cold lump that, when cooked originally, had been burned.
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I was constipated, energy-less, had ketotic breath and was just generally miserable.
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In fact there were two miserable days in August when my switch was flicked.
Times, Sunday Times
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He always was a miserable man. He never spoke to me nor anybody else.
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O light of my life, o most beautiful goddess, who doth hold my heart and soul, would it please thee to give this gift unto me, this most miserable servant of thine?
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So the radical fringe on the left, following the Alinsky playbook and in an effort to continue to move our equally free country in the direction of the equally miserable, disposed of the term reparations, along with it's negative connotations, in favor of a much more common and already accepted term, "justice.
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