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Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a
miserable fellow; a miserable dinner.

Miserable comforters are ye all.

Job xvi. 2.

4. Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.
[Obs.] Hooker.

Syn. -- Abject; forlorn; pitiable; wretched.

Mis"er*a*ble, n. A miserable
person. [Obs.] Sterne.

Mis"er*a*ble*ness, n. The state or
quality of being miserable.

Mis"er*a*bly, adv. In a miserable;
unhappily; calamitously; wretchedly; meanly.

They were miserably entertained.

Sir P. Sidney.

The fifth was miserably stabbed to
death.

South.

Mis`er*a"tion (?), n.
Commiseration. [Obs.]

||Mis`e*re"re (?), n. [L., have mercy,
fr. misereri to have mercy, fr. miser. See
Miser.]

1. (R. C. Ch.) The psalm usually
appointed for penitential acts, being the 50th psalm in the Latin
version.

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