miserable
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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
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
“The band came off the set miserable because we couldn’t really hear ourselves,” she says, “but our worst shows are most people’s best.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
France are again seen as their closest rivals and have appointed former Canada women's head coach Francois Ratier in the hope that he can end their miserable 16-game losing run to England.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
And it was raining, so we were all pretty miserable.
From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola
Vocabulary lists containing miserable
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 1–6
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