miserable
[ˈmɪzrəbl]
Definition:
1. Very unhappy; full of misery.
2. Deserving or inciting pity.
3. Of the most contemptible kind.
4. Of very poor quality or condition.
Use 'miserable' in a sentence:
- 1. He began to find himself hanging around her father's house, nights, and feeling very miserable.
- 2. It was a grey, wet, miserable day.
- 3. The miserable Hatter dropped his teacup and bread-and-butter, and went down on one knee.
- 4. Sheila was looking miserable.
- 5. Miserable wretch that I am!
- 6. The film was a miserable commercial failure both in Italy and in the United States.
- 7. If he had listened to me, he couldn't have been so miserable.
- 8. We want them to be as miserable as us.
- 9. Don't look so miserable!
- 10. He has been so miserable since his wife's death.
- 11. Considering the miserable state of the economy, what can you do?
- 12. His face would have been handsome if it had not been so miserable.
- 13. What a miserable day!
- 14. There was nothing at all in this miserable place to distract him.
- 15. She went to bed, miserable and depressed.
- 16. Sometimes this is a happy solution when family tensions make everyone miserable.
- 17. However, even though unemployment rates will not be as severe, I still predict that we are in store for a miserable decade of economic stagnation.
- 18. It was a miserable wet day.
- 19. The final two months were a miserable coda to the President's first period in office.
- 20. It was very cold, damp and miserable.
- 21. For them, these miserable couples offend the very idea of marriage.
- 22. He likes to complain about his personal miserable life.
- 23. Do you want one hundred, a thousand, two thousand gold pieces for your miserable five?
- 24. Her boyfriend stood her up, so she spent the weekend feeling miserable.
- 25. The gaoler nodded grimly, laying his withered hand on the shoulder of the miserable Toad.
- 26. When the carter saw this, he again cried out, "Miserable wretch that I am!"
- 27. At last she grew entirely miserable and wished she hadn't carried it so far.
- 28. It has so far accepted a miserable 1,100 refugees from the former Yugoslavia.
- 29. She smiles too much when I am ill and miserable.
- 30. Let us face it: our lives are miserable and short.
- 31. I took a series of badly paid secretarial jobs which made me really miserable.
- 32. He was miserable all the time and rows would start over petty things.
- 33. I spent a miserable weekend alone at home.
- 34. She knows how to make life miserable for her employees.
- 35. He was a miserable old devil.
- 36. The family endured a miserable existence in a cramped apartment.
- 37. You may be stuck with a miserable existence for the rest of your life.
- 38. Our speed over the ground was a miserable 2.2 knots.
- 39. The play was a miserable failure.
- 40. Their early success was succeeded by a period of miserable failure.
- 41. Miserable, and unexpectedly lonely, she went in search of Jean-Paul.
- 42. He felt too miserable and lethargic to get dressed.
- 43. They ended by making themselves miserable.
- 44. We were cold, wet and thoroughly miserable.
- 45. She's had a series of miserable relationships.
- 46. He always was a miserable man. He never spoke to me nor anybody else.
- 47. How can anyone live on such a miserable wage?
