miserably poor
Example Sentences
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Hebei's brick-and-stone villages punctuate a verdant landscape neither rich nor miserably poor.
From Time Magazine Archive
After glancing over the past year's crop of movies, most film critics had announced their lists of "ten best"�and, in view of its wealth and its energy, Hollywood had made a miserably poor showing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fact Judged by U. S. standards Japan's middle classes are miserably poor, but even the poorest patriot can give his mite.
From Time Magazine Archive
He said he had, but they were miserably poor.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
The receipts were miserably poor, and he had had an invitation from the magistrates of the next town on the coast to give a series of plays, lasting several weeks.
From The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History by Heyse, Paul
