miserable
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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
Nasty villains with evil plans to make us miserable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
I explained how Dad had been miserable since he’d lost his job, no matter how many times he claimed, “It’s all good.”
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing miserable
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 1–6
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