miserable
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From the outside, I probably look quite miserable and boring!
From BBC • May 2, 2026
Cramped inside vessels overladen with precious cargo, crewmembers subsisted on a miserable diet of hardtack, an unleavened bread, and salted meat and fish that routinely spoiled and left many gravely ill.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
Henry may be living a miserable life that he wants to escape from, but fans have been losing themselves in baseball for a long time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
But he had two miserable seasons there, giving up more than 3½ goals a game, before being traded to Boston, where he did little better.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026
“If we stayed angry or sad all of the time, things would still be hard, but we’d be miserable on top of it.”
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
Vocabulary lists containing miserable
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 1–6
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