英和和英

形容詞

misable (comparative more misable, superlative most misable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of miserable.
   • 1852, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Tale about Life Among the Lowly, page 449:

     "O, don't--oh, ye mustn't l” said Tom, grasping his hand; “he's a poor misable crittur ! it's wrul to hink on't! O, if he only could repent, the Lord would forgive him now! but I'm 'feared he never will!"

   • 1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:

     But the king he only looked sorrowful, and says: "Gentlemen, I wish the money was there, for I ain't got no disposition to throw anything in the way of a fair, open, out-and-out investigation o' this misable business; but alas, the money ain't there; you k'n send and see, if you want to."

   • 1999, J. California Cooper, The Wake of the Wind, →ISBN, page 156:

     Mor sat on the edge of the bed, “Lifee, baby, it was a time I was so alone I was misable and dint know it. That's misable sides bein a slave..."