miserable
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Wodehouse caper: “Jacqui Cutler trudged into her expansive kitchen, looking every bit as worn out and miserable as someone who had spent the morning digging potatoes, which she most certainly had not.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
If everything around us is telling us we are going to feel miserable, that we’re not recovered, we’ll start to believe it.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
“It’s miserable and it’s frustrating, the games they play,” he said.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
The dark comedy follows a miserable Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading to the assassination of her husband, who will be played by the Tony Award-winning actor J. Harrison Ghee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
I almost said I wanted Mom to open up and express herself, but I’ve gotten too familiar with Dad’s miserable almost-crying-trying-not-to-cry face, and I didn’t want to see it again.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
Vocabulary lists containing miserable
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 1–6
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