"misery inducing" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means something that causes or contributes to someone's suffering or unhappiness. Example: The long hours and low pay at my job were misery inducing, making me dread going to work every day.
By effectively outsourcing buying decisions to someone else, these services attempt to help people avoid what Barry Schwartz, a professor of psychology at Swarthmore College, describes as the "misery-inducing tyranny" of the modern American marketplace.
The work, reported in the 29 November issue of Science, shows for the first time that the bugs have a taste for hydrogen, and it suggests new ways to control the misery-inducing critters.
But we can't avoid the awkward, misery-inducing question: Can any of the blame be placed upon the movies themselves — or on this movie in particular?
Her subject was misery-inducing but her approach, like that of many of her female interviewees, was smart, determined, bracing – and thus oddly cheering.
But they couldn't do anything about the shifting wind, and by the end of the day, the course was just as hard and even more misery-inducing.
So here we are, still backing brutal dictators and repressive regimes in the Middle East – a decades-old, misery-inducing policy – even though it is disruptive and trashes any credibility the West might otherwise have in the region.
The club reversed the clinical, misery-inducing strategy set out by the managing director, Lee Charnley, last season, 60 years after Newcastle last won a domestic trophy, the FA Cup, of in effect surrendering ambition in the cups in favour of aiming for a financially comfortable position in the upper half of the league table.
The insane former education secretary, Benedict (with the voice of James Woods, in an inspired turn), is based on the real-life former education secretary and professional downer William J. Bennett and his misery-inducing "Book of Virtues," which inspired the most mirthless animation this side of "Davey and Goliath".
A sea of empty, illusory, misery-inducing choice".
In Dice's case the brand building is better described as an aspiration to pull in some of the fan love it's ultimately trading on — to harness the power of people's music passions to reclaim an unloved category (aka the misery-inducing ticketing company that true fans currently curse).
