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Princeton's WordNet

  1. miserablyadverb

    in a miserable manner

    "I bit my lip miserably and nodded"

Wiktionary

  1. miserablyadverb

    In a miserable manner

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. 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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  1. 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

  1. Miserablyadverb

    in a miserable; unhappily; calamitously; wretchedly; meanly

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of miserably in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of miserably in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of miserably in a Sentence

  1. Jack Keane:

    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.

  2. Todd Bowles:

    Good players make good coaches, so you always want to have good players, i ’m not going to apologize for inheriting a talented team. I’ve had less success with a team. It’s different to the fact that I do n’t think I can go into this trying to be Bruce. I would fail miserably if I tried. ... I can be me.

  3. Paul Casey:

    For as long as I've been Paul Casey, I've been a member of the European Tour, for a long, long time now, I've been trying to play both the European Tour and European Tour, and some years I've done it brilliantly, and other years I've failed miserably, and I just didn't want to keep putting Paul Casey in kind of a position where I'm struggling to fly around the world.

  4. Meredith McGehee:

    It's clear that anyone wanting an accurate picture of the money flowing in and out of the Clinton Foundation using public records would fail miserably because the public records are both inaccurate and fairly opaque.

  5. Lindsey Graham:

    I'm suggesting the system has failed miserably and advocates to change the system like she was advocating would destroy our ability to protect our country.

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