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miserably

adverb B2
  1. In a miserable manner. · fail miserably
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Anne laid her hat and jacket away, and shrank miserably into a corner.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 281 · C1
If I were betrayed as he was, I would console myself; but to be in the midst of persons elevated by myself to places of honor, who ought to watch over me more carefully than over themselves,—for my fortune is theirs—before me they were nothing—after me they will be nothing, and perish miserably from incapacity—ineptitude!
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 101 · C1
At the threshold he recollected that he had not paid for it and he turned miserably back.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 190 · C1
But first I must say farewell to my mother.” And he went to the cave where she lived with Father Wolf, and he cried on her coat, while the four cubs howled miserably.
The Jungle Book, p. 28 · B2

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