misery

It took years of accumulated misery around mirrors to make me quit pie.
Salt: The dietary danger that’s easy to ignore|Karen Sandstrom|December 11, 2020|Washington Post
It was miserable, but the level of misery made it more memorable.
Two soccer fans have attended every MLS Cup, and they’re not stopping now|Steven Goff|December 11, 2020|Washington Post
The trillion-dollar gap between actual GDP and potential GDP is a gap made up of misery, unemployment, and unfulfilled promise.
How central banks can save the world|Felix Salmon|October 29, 2020|Axios
His misery over the loss of his son, Eddy — a talented guitarist who overdosed on heroin — never subsided.
Nobody wrote songs like Billy Joe Shaver|Geoff Edgers|October 29, 2020|Washington Post

For others, an active infection may spell misery for months.
WHO says common steroids can slash death risk for the sickest coronavirus patients|Sy Mukherjee|September 2, 2020|Fortune
There are no moratoriums on the Internet, least of all for news of human misery.
The Monsters Who Screamed for Dead Cops|Jacob Siegel|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Every possible outcome—them together, them staying with their existing partners—seems only likely to bring misery.
How Will They End ‘The Affair’? Showtime’s Adultery Drama Defies Predictability|Tim Teeman|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Has she been doomed by the science of 2014 to a life of sexual misery?
Was 2014 the Year Science Discovered The Female Orgasm?|Samantha Allen|December 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“I think religion in general is the source of most human misery,” he says.
The Unbelievable (True) Story of the World’s Most Infamous Hash Smuggler|Marlow Stern|November 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It breaks up families, burns hope, and perpetuates cycles of misery.
Here’s a Reform Even the Koch Brothers and George Soros Can Agree On|Tina Brown|November 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the year of misery, of agony and suffering in general he had endured, he had settled upon one theory.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
From this one source of misery, where was a promise or a chance of a final rescue?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
Consequently there is so universal misery that no words could exaggerate it to your Majesty.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various
The darkness, or rather the general misapprehension, which prevails on this subject, is a frightful source of disease and misery.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
The years that followed the close of the Napoleonic wars in 1815 were in many senses years of unexampled misery.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock

British Dictionary definitions for misery

misery

/ (ˈmɪzərɪ) /

noun plural -eries

intense unhappiness, discomfort, or suffering; wretchedness

a cause of such unhappiness, discomfort, etc

squalid or poverty-stricken conditions

British informal a person who is habitually depressedhe is such a misery

dialect a pain or ailment

Word Origin for misery

C14: via Anglo-Norman from Latin miseria, from miser wretched

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