What is "miserably"

Usage examples of "miserably".

Thick was sitting on the deck at my feet, his eyes closed, swaying miserably, his music a queasy accompaniment to the rhythm of his body.

Stunted, alien creatures, warped by enormous forces into miserably malformed, distorted shapes.

For his gain, hordes of his fellow-creatures are thenceforth condemned to slave miserably, overground and underground, lashed to their work by the invisible whip of starvation.

God, who hath superabundantly replenished the earth with creatures serving for the use of man, though man hath not used the fift part of the same, which the more doth aggravate the fault and foolish slouth in many of our nation, chusing rather to live indirectly, and very miserably to live and die within this realme pestered with inhabitants, then to adventure as becommeth men, to obtaine an habitation in those remote lands, in which Nature very prodigally doth minister unto mens endeavours, and for art to worke upon.

If I die heere thus miserably, sorrowfully, and vncomfortably, all alone, who shal bee a woorthie successour of so precious a gemme?

It checked on the lip of a sheer drop, behind it a youngster squealing miserably with another squatting adult holding on to it with its trunk.

But oh, mesdames, if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and tetrameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!

Edwards, as cold-blooded a whoremaster as ever lived, had fallen hopelessly, miserably in love with Catherine Amesbury.

The force of these waves is very great: the animalculum is miserably frail.

Joyce, the Irish novelist, who worked miserably as a bank clerk in Rome in the 1900s, seems to have read Belli, whose vast sonnet-sequence, presenting realistically the demotic life of a great capital city, may be regarded as a kind of proto-Ulysses.

I have never failed in anything so miserably as in my attempts to wean Chandrasekhar from him.

Miserably the juggler got out of the way, muttering to the others in Cypriot Greek.

And then he asked himself how a doctor could treat the overwhelming grief and anguish she was experiencing, and he acknowledged miserably that he had no ready answers.

Its lines looked primitive to Firebird, but as the NPN had found, VeeRon was miserably equipped for defense.

Rome, and if he had followed this counsel he would not have died miserably in a Roman prison.