Misery - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
Extra examples
The war brought misery to thousands of refugees.
They were living in overcrowded slums in conditions of great misery.
The last years of her life were a misery.
Stop being such a misery.
It was sheer misery living there.
What we are witnessing here is human misery on a vast scale.
She looked away so that Tom wouldn't see her misery.
His face was a picture of sheer misery.
The news plunged him into abject misery.
Don't be such a misery.
What's the matter with you, misery guts (=a name for someone like this)?
The pain and misery are impossible to forget.
...with considerable bile, the author recounts a childhood filled with misery and loneliness...
They live in abject misery.
...like all sublunary things, this misery will one day end...
Word forms
singular: misery
plural: miseries
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