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MISERABLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a miserable manner

Example:

I bit my lip miserably and nodded

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

miserable (characterized by physical misery)

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 Context examples: 

I feel so happy to-night. I have been so miserably weak, that to be able to think and move about is like feeling sunshine after a long spell of east wind out of a steel sky.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

On his quitting the room she sat down, unable to support herself, and looking so miserably ill, that it was impossible for Darcy to leave her, or to refrain from saying, in a tone of gentleness and commiseration, Let me call your maid.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Weston was afraid of draughts for the young people in that passage; and neither Emma nor the gentlemen could tolerate the prospect of being miserably crowded at supper.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Believe me, Frankenstein, I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity; but am I not alone, miserably alone?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

His mastiff face was heavy with emotion, and he shook his head miserably as he spoke.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oh! then she began to howl quite horribly, but Gretel ran away and the godless witch was miserably burnt to death.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I am solemnly convinced that I never for one hour was reconciled to it, or was otherwise than miserably unhappy; but I bore it; and even to Peggotty, partly for the love of her and partly for shame, never in any letter (though many passed between us) revealed the truth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There are not enough soup-kitchens and bread-lines to go around, you know, and when men have nothing in their purses they usually die, and die miserably—unless they are able to fill their purses pretty speedily.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The only inconvenience is, that none of these projects are yet brought to perfection; and in the mean time, the whole country lies miserably waste, the houses in ruins, and the people without food or clothes.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But you are miserably behindhand.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)