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miserable🔊

In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.

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With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation

Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent; hopeless.

Of the weather, extremely unpleasant due to being cold, wet, overcast, etc.

Wretched; worthless; mean; contemptible.

(obsolete) Causing unhappiness or misery.

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For what's more miserable than discontent?

(obsolete) Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.

A miserable person; a wretch.

(informal) A state of misery or melancholy.

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