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
After glancing over the past year's crop of movies, most film critics had announced their lists of "ten best"�and, in view of its wealth and its energy, Hollywood had made a miserably poor showing.
From Time Magazine Archive
He said he had, but they were miserably poor.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
He looked so miserably poor and ill, that in spite of everything I felt sorry for him, and I gave him what money I could.
From A Woman's Burden by Hume, Fergus
