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The word 'misery' is correct and commonly used in written English
It can be used as a noun to describe a state of extreme unhappiness, suffering, or distress. Example: After losing her job and going through a difficult divorce, Sarah fell into a deep state of misery. In this sentence, 'misery' is used to convey the intense emotional pain and hardship that Sarah is experiencing. It can also be used in other contexts, such as physical misery (pain or discomfort in the body) or economic misery (financial hardship or poverty).
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Misery
noun
Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
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That necessitates, at some level, a strategy that can be described as "calculated misery".
Whitechapel, he considered, had been much belied, and many of his fellow countrymen had come away from it with preposterous stories of murder and misery.
You get annoyed about things in real life and then the tragic thing is that while you are moaning on the awful injustice and suffering of something, something grimly comic will then strike you about it, like a parasite feeding off the misery of the world.
In contrast to the misery in which they trade, Libya's people smugglers make big profits.
For those who are fished out of the sea – and there has been on average 500 a day this year – the misery is not yet over.
From the stage the actors could see the misery etched on their faces, condemned to sit in a sweltering theatre and watch a play about heterosexual and homosexual love in New York when all their mates were down the pub screaming advice at Paul Gascoigne.
"We live in the most unequal part of the world, which has grown the most, yet reduced misery the least," he said in 2007.
"We'll crack down on anyone who takes an irresponsible approach to roadworks without regard to the travel misery they can so often cause.
In failing to have ambitious enough plans to end the misery of millions of families shivering in poorly insulated homes, Miliband is not only missing a huge opportunity to save the NHS billions of pounds, he's also missing the chance to show he can say "boo" to Mr Osborne and make big, bold decisions when it matters.
After all, the images of misery I had just seen were not fabricated, they were real.
The shadow transport secretary, Michael Dugher, said: "At Christmas, we saw a combination of chaos and incompetence on the railway, causing misery".
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