miserable

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For he was miserable--miserable, pessimistic and pretty thoroughly disgusted with life.

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  1. adjective Very uncomfortable or unhappy; wretched.
  2. adjective Causing or accompanied by great discomfort or distress: a miserable climate.
  3. adjective Mean or shameful; contemptible: a miserable trick.
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  • She looks absolutely miserable, which is more or less how she has looked all week. —  FSF,September2005
  • At the core of modern liberalism is the spoiled child -- miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. —  BabyTrollBlog
  • And why has the Canadian reaction to her been even more vicious - not only by the usual suspects like the miserable, angry "feminist" —  Flaggman's Canada
  • She continued to stand there in the glare and the heat--miserable, dejected, rebellious, until the tram halted for her. —  Flamsted quarries
  • For he was miserable--miserable, pessimistic and pretty thoroughly disgusted with life. —  Fair Harbor
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin miserābilis, pitiable, from miserārī, to pity, from miser, wretched.

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  1. from Old French miserable, French misérable = Spanish miserable = Portuguese miseravel = Italian miserabile, from Latin miserabilis, pitiable, from miserari, pity, from miser, wretched: see miser.
 

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