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
Why did you expel poor Albert Preheim, who was miserably poor, dependent, and sincerely devoted to you?
From A Twofold Life by Wilhelmine von Hillern
There was a householder's son who went away into a distant country, and while the father accumulated immeasurable riches, the son became miserably poor.
From The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus by Paul Carus
Many of these people are miserably poor, and they are annually growing poorer under Persian maladministration.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
