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(satellite adjective) characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor" |
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Synonyms: wretched |
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(satellite adjective) very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages" |
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Synonyms: suffering, wretched |
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(satellite adjective) contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans" |
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Synonyms: measly, paltry |
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(satellite adjective) deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "couldn't rescue the poor fellow"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" |
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Synonyms: hapless, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched |
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(satellite adjective) of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" |
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Synonyms: deplorable, execrable, woeful, wretched |
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(satellite adjective) of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick" |
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Synonyms: abject, low, low-down, scummy, scurvy |
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