miserably poor
Example Sentences
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Fact Judged by U. S. standards Japan's middle classes are miserably poor, but even the poorest patriot can give his mite.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hebei's brick-and-stone villages punctuate a verdant landscape neither rich nor miserably poor.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Major John, dear, some of your tenants are miserably poor, Major John!"
From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Farnol, Jeffery
I wish I could, my dear Lucy; but I am miserably poor.
From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. by Lever, Charles James
The receipts were miserably poor, and he had had an invitation from the magistrates of the next town on the coast to give a series of plays, lasting several weeks.
From The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History by Heyse, Paul
