"terrible misery" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a feeling of intense and overwhelming unhappiness or suffering. It is often used to convey a sense of extreme despair or anguish. Example: "The villagers were in a state of terrible misery after the devastating flood destroyed their homes and livelihoods."
Even though Haiti has had its share of abortive elections, nothing can stop the upcoming vote not the wild-card candidacies of star musicians, not the arguable legitimacy of the electoral council, not the terrible misery of the capital's population.
The anguish of the past is still snagged on the barbed wire, and a terrible misery stagnates over the camp, its spores infiltrating the hearts of visitors in the 21st century.
I dislike the "high society" here [in New York where she had travelled with Rivera] and feel a little rage against all these fat cats, since I've seen thousands of people in terrible misery.' Kahlo even dedicated a self-portrait to Eloesser in 1940: 'I painted my portrait in the year 1940 for Dr Leo Eloesser, my doctor and my best friend.
I believe that for the people of Burma and Iran and Sudan and anywhere where darkness prevails for a time and inflicts its terrible miseries on the innocent, before the light of human conscience extinguishes it forever.
Socially, it was also a time of terrible devastation and misery for Colombia.
A spark of passion passes between them, which is to ignite an awful tragedy, leading finally to the grim irony of the film's ending, in which the secret deal is repeated: a new victim is humiliated - and so the terrible chain of misery continues.
Every so often, a time comes in your life when you just want to wallow in your own terrible, piss-stinking misery.
They are unable to sit by and ignore the terrible drama of human misery.
Green Revolution has already run out of steam, leaving behind a trail of misery and terrible human suffering.
The litany of misery was as terrible as it was routine.
