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mis·er·ab·ly
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Princeton's WordNet
miserablyadverb
in a miserable manner
"I bit my lip miserably and nodded"
Wiktionary
miserablyadverb
In a miserable manner
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Miserablyadverb
Etymology: from miserable.
Of the five employed by him, two of them quarrelled, one of which was slain, and the other hanged for it; the third drowned himself; the fourth, though rich, came to beg his bread; and the fifth was miserably stabbed to death. South.
As the love I bear you makes me thus invite you, so the same love makes me ashamed to bring you to a place, where you shall be so, not spoken by ceremony but by truth, miserably entertained. Philip Sidney, b. ii.
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miserably
Miserably is an adverb that describes an action carried out in a very unhappy, uncomfortable, or pitiful way. It can imply extreme distress, unsatisfactory conditions, or poor quality.
Webster Dictionary
Miserablyadverb
in a miserable; unhappily; calamitously; wretchedly; meanly
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of miserably in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of miserably in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of miserably in a Sentence
Everything he has done is completely wrong, we had opportunities to do this the right way and we absolutely failed miserably.
Instead of using our guy's record to prosecute a case against him, they put all their eggs in a flimsy guilt-by-association attack that failed miserably, even in this strongly populist district, there were some ads where they spent 26 seconds talking about the Kochs and four seconds on Jenkins, which was fine by me.
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
Attorney General Bill Schuette:
Many things went tragically wrong in Flint, and both criminal conduct and civil conduct caused harm to the families of Flint and to the taxpayers of Michigan, in Flint, Veolia and LAN were hired to do a job and failed miserably. Their fraudulent and dangerous recommendations made a bad situation worse.
Three past presidents have sought political, economic and diplomatic steps to get North Korea to denuclearize but failed miserably, all three tried to leverage The Chinese but also failed.
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