miseries

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But it also quite consciously plays to the baser side of us that takes cold comfort, even joy, at the miseries of the hyperwealthy.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

No wonder mud became “shorthand for the miseries of poverty,” Ms. Ziegelman writes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

Apartments, in her view, have spared her from the miseries of suburban housing.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2025

“You cannot blame British newspapers for the miseries heaped on the Prince and Princess of Wales,” columnist Hugo Rifkind wrote in The Times of London.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 26, 2024

But during that terrible first week of his life I was racked with the miseries of a weak, sore body and a lost soul.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver