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The phrase "a miserable sort of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is unpleasant or of poor quality, often in a somewhat informal or literary context.
Example: "He lived in a miserable sort of place, with peeling paint and broken windows."
Alternatives: "a wretched kind of" or "a pitiful type of".
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Gnessen also thinks I have become too comfortable (in a miserable sort of way) with being in debt and am, inadvertently, ensuring I stay there.
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Instead, I'm a miserable sort who can't really find anything positive to say about this team.
In The Fred Dibnah Story (1996) she recalled their first meeting: "He looked sad and miserable, quite a pathetic sort of figure really, none of the bounce that people knew him for".
But they face a miserable set of financial circumstances.
A: Yes, sort of.
A: Sort of.
By Saturday night I was in danger of sinking into a sort of miserable hourly drink-pee-weigh cycle.
It's a miserable state of affairs.
Chelsea have a miserable history of attracting right-wing hooligans.
The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is a miserable stretch of road.
It caps a miserable couple of weeks for the BNP.
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