adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a miserable existence (= very unpleasant )
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The refugees had to endure a miserable existence in the desert.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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You may be as miserable as the people who write to me about losing their jobs.
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The truth of it was, as miserable as things were, I just wanted to say I had been there.
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Laugh ... laughs with ... Weep ... alone. 10. As miserable as ... 21.
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I wondered if there was another child in all those windows or all the world who felt as miserable as I did.
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Her life has been quite as miserable as your Isabel's, I fear.
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The Siege of Chattanooga had at least one very unusual aspect: Many of the besiegers were as miserable as the besieged.
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Pam is about as miserable a person as anyone trotting around London can be.
how
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I never thought I was soon to see just how miserable the peoples of the earth can make life for themselves.
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It lets me forget how miserable my life is.
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Can't you see how miserable he is, how difficult all this is for him?
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Again, I was moved that he should have perceived how miserable an exile to the Persian Gulf would have been.
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The engines were just up there and their noise prevented us from thinking about how miserable it all might be.
more
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January, when most results are announced, will be more miserable than ever-particularly if consumer sentiment continues to deteriorate.
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At Forty-second Street stand the twin apartment towers of Manhattan Plaza, grim reminders of two more miserable affairs.
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Bathsheba was watching his expression closely, and she had never been more miserable .
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The funeral of an old high-school classmate just makes him more miserable .
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Oliver had never seen a dirtier or more miserable place.
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She was more miserable about not being miserable.
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She was even more miserable later because almost as soon as she arrived in her room she started to have toothache.
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Every day they became more miserable .
most
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He had been at school almost six months, the most miserable time of his entire life.
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Last year's prodigy, in sharp contrast, endured the most miserable day of his short and spectacular formula one career.
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It was one of the most miserable days in my life.
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It was a hell of a big thing, it was the most miserable New Year I have ever had.
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Corbett then spent what must have been one of the most miserable nights he had ever experienced.
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The summer holidays that year saw me at my most apathetic - and my most miserable .
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She fully intended to give Matthew Blake the most miserable afternoon of company he had ever had!
so
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He felt wretched, in fact at times so miserable that he wanted to laugh out loud.
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It could be a fit of laughter, Blue reasons, but then why would Black be so miserable ?
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My ribs were sore when I coughed, my tummy was bloated and painful, and I felt so miserable .
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It was so miserable , growing up, not resembling any of my friends.
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And if I made Joanne stay in, she would be so miserable , that it would make the baby miserable.
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And so miserable that she felt she would never drag herself out of this pit of misery.
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When I came here, she was so miserable .
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She had never been so miserable in her life.
very
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They were finding it hard to make ends meet and life had become very miserable .
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However, she admitted that she had felt very miserable for 3 or 4 months.
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They were on the top floor of an old house and he was very cold and very miserable .
■ NOUN
day
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For some, the floods meant a miserable day stuck indoors.
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Last year's prodigy, in sharp contrast, endured the most miserable day of his short and spectacular formula one career.
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It was one of the most miserable days in my life.
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And full-back Robert Turner had a miserable day with his kicking, landing only two goals from seven shots.
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Montgomerie looked the sharpest fielder on a miserable day when tea was delivered to the fielders after one hour's play.
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Over £3,000 was raised at the event in 1988, even though it was a damp and miserable day .
life
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But at the same time I revelled in the unlovely sound because it might be the saving of my miserable life .
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Inexorably, it pulls you into the folds of a miserable life of degradation, poverty, and humiliation.
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The workers in Mirny are not well-off by any means; in fact, they lead miserable lives .
time
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He had been at school almost six months, the most miserable time of his entire life.
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He is having a miserable time .
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Bowater has had a miserable time since joining the Footsie last week, the share price falling a good 10 p.c.
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For Davenport it represented a personal triumph, following the miserable time he endured while with Boro.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as friendly/cheerful/miserable etc as ever
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The lads were as cheerful as ever but guarded, like the possessors of unwelcome news.
as miserable/ugly/guilty as sin
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All that work for this miserable paycheck!
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All the staff seemed to look miserable and the atmosphere was not at all pleasant.
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Dana was in the other day and she looked miserable .
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Factory workers during the 18th century led miserable lives.
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He sat all alone in his room, thoroughly miserable .
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I wish this city would do something about the miserable condition of the roads.
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Jen has been stuck in a miserable job for the last two years.
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Preston had a miserable childhood.
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The journey home was miserable . Everyone was depressed about losing the game.
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The poor miserable animals were starving, dirty and wet.
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Wear your coat, or you'll get sick in this miserable weather
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Enraged, drunk, freezing and unutterably miserable I left to make the 200 mile trip home.
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She appropriated slapstick and hyperbole to the delicious purpose of lampooning the fathead who made her life miserable .
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She should have known better than to think he would bring it to her, miserable sinner that she was.
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There was only Sergeant-Chef Gibeau to make our lives miserable now.
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They made each other miserable , locking wills, disbelieving that the other party could long endure a war of emotional attrition.
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What I had seen of Czechoslovakia was a society which encouraged a miserable waste of human resources.