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UK
/mˈɪzəɹˌi/
]
[ US /ˈmɪzɝi/ ]
[ US /ˈmɪzɝi/ ]
NOUN
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a feeling of intense unhappiness
she was exhausted by her misery and grief -
a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable
How To Use misery In A Sentence
- He bears misery best who hides it most.
- 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.
- The actress is asking the court to protect her from an obsessive fan who is making her life a misery.
- People feared the development would cause traffic gridlock and claimed noisy fans would make their lives a misery.
- He stared in dumb misery at the wreckage of the car.
- 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
- 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
- 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