miserable
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In the meantime, my fiancée is miserable in her current job.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
What a blow to grumps who chuckle when a New York team endures a miserable season, of which plenty remain, thanks to those Mets, Giants, Rangers and, of course, the pratfalling Jets.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
The Angels thumped the Colorado Rockies 11-4, but one good night cannot change the trajectory of a miserable season.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
It was pretty miserable — but I wasn’t about to complain about free housing.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
But that didn’t mean there was no use in those two people feeling miserable about the sadness and destruction they and their completely-unacceptable-and-breaking-their-word-in-one-hundred-places decisions had brought into the valley and to me.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
Vocabulary lists containing miserable
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 1–6
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Charlotte's Web
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