miserable
/ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/ adjective B1- In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
- Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent; hopeless. · He's good at some sports, like tennis, but he's just miserable at football.
- Of the weather, extremely unpleasant due to being cold, wet, overcast, etc.
- Wretched; worthless; mean; contemptible. · a miserable sinner
- Negative minded, unpleasant to be around.
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“Lecoq was a miserable bungler,” he said, in an angry voice; “he had only one thing to recommend him, and that was his energy.
Exasperated, Marilla returned to the kitchen and poured out her tale of woe to Matthew, who, between his sense of justice and his unlawful sympathy with Anne, was a miserable man.
“Five minutes ago I was so miserable I was wishing I’d never been born and now I wouldn’t change places with an angel!”
Roll me into the hives of the wild bees that I may be stung to death, and bury me with the Hyaena, for I am most miserable of bears!
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