Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a miserable manner; calamitously; pitiably; deplorably; very poorly or meanly; wretchedly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a miserable; unhappily; calamitously; wretchedly; meanly.

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  • adverb In a miserable manner

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a miserable manner

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Examples

  • "Now as far as funding for our ELL programs, that's pitiful," he said, referring to what he calls miserably inadequate state and federal appropriations for the programs.

    news | FT | http://www.timesdaily.com 2009

  • He lives in Al Maghazi Refugee Camp where people still are suffering miserably from the impacts of the War on their houses and streets.

    Global Voices in English » Palestine: The Experience Of Ramadan In Gaza 2009

  • Pasture-raised chickens eat grass and peck for bugs rather than standing in miserably cramped pens; they spend the daylight hours outdoors.

    Spring Chickens 2006

  • Pasture-raised chickens eat grass and peck for bugs rather than standing in miserably cramped pens; they spend the daylight hours outdoors.

    Spring Chickens 2006

  • Pasture-raised chickens eat grass and peck for bugs rather than standing in miserably cramped pens; they spend the daylight hours outdoors.

    Spring Chickens 2006

  • And some of the exuberant boys who had stood in the slop of “Grafton Undermud,” as they called their miserably drained base, toasting their first success, lay cold in their graves.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • And some of the exuberant boys who had stood in the slop of “Grafton Undermud,” as they called their miserably drained base, toasting their first success, lay cold in their graves.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • He wasn’t the sort of man to shirk his obligations, but he was the sort to complain miserably about them, which made his statement about space exploration even more puzzling.

    The Conquest of Space, and Other Dreams « A Fly in Amber 2010

  • BOTH parties have failed us miserably, that is the reason in 2010 and in 2012 all incumbents should be voted out of office.

    Congress needs to rein in spending, Thune says 2009

  • Abundance of associations were here, connected with his false wife, his false friend and servant, his false grounds of pride; but he put them all by now, and only recalled miserably, weakly, fondly, his two children.

    Dombey and Son 2007

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