MISERABLY


Meaning of MISERABLY in English

-blē, -li adverb

Etymology: Middle English, from miserable (I) + -ly

1. : in a miserable manner : uncomfortably , unhappily : wretchedly

conscious that her feet were miserably wet — J.C.Powys

miserably eking out his existence as a hack writer — R.A.Hall b.1911

2. : meanly , poorly

men so miserably paid — Kenneth Roberts

well fed but miserably housed

3. : in a deplorable manner or to a deplorable extent : pitiably

tried so hard and often failed so miserably to bring order out of financial chaos — Current Biography

miserably deluded by what they take to be realism — W.L.Sullivan

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.