miserable
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The guitarist didn’t skip a beat: “That suits me, I’m a miserable sod most of the 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
The stress of our high-pressure careers has left both my wife and me completely miserable.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026
"I can't focus on my work. I had to take time off from work due to pain and I'm just miserable."
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
But that didn’t mean there was no use in those two people feeling miserable about the sadness and destruction they and their completely-unacceptable-and-breaking-their-word-in-one-hundred-places decisions had brought into the valley and to me.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
Vocabulary lists containing miserable
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 1–6
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