In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
The word "miserable" is correct and usable in written English. It is an adjective that is used to describe someone or something that is feeling sad and unhappy. Example sentence: The cold and rainy weather made the children's school trip completely miserable.
It's a peculiar thing, when you think about it, that a miserable pun has become as important as the Queen's Speech and The Wizard of Oz.
Yet commercially driven online websites, marketed to a youthful female readership, portray women as miserable victims.
The England No3 then clubs her first boundary straight down the ground, just beating the dive of Jonassen, and follows it up with another, this one singeing the fingers of the bowler before being tossed over the rope courtesy of some pretty miserable fielding down on the boundary, with Jonassen this time the guilty party.
Electric Zoo's festivalgoers seemed sodden and miserable.
Now, details have begun to emerge of Broomhilda's abhorrently miserable existence.
I go nuts for coconut, so this week's theme has turned the supposedly most miserable week of the year into a round-the-world trip of brilliant breakfasts, lunches and dinners.
And there's no point in being miserable.
And this bloke said, 'What are you looking so miserable about with all your money?'" Spall mimes a double take.
The only good thing to come out of that completely miserable experience was that it made me decide to do what I wanted rather than what other people expected.
It's going to be the most miserable film ever made, isn't it?
Young and old love it I'm not a miserable artist!
Ludwig does not simply clarify my doubts with English writing, it enlightens my writing with new possibilities
Simone Ivan Conte
Software Engineer at Adobe, UK