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misérable

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adjective
  1. destitute, impoverished
  2. seedy, shabby
  3. wretched, pitiful
  4. feeble, paltry, measly
nounfemininemasculine
  1. wretch, scoundrel
  2. a Belgian French pastry of vanilla butter-cream and tender almond biscuit layers

Used in the library

  • Voilà longtemps que je n'étais revenu au pays, et j'étais à me dire que c'était une misérable place pour vivre, que les hommes étaient une gang de simples qui n'avaient rien vu et que les filles n'étaient sûrement pas aussi fines ni aussi smart que celles des États...For a long time I had not returned to the country, and I was thinking that it was a miserable place to live, that men were a gang of simple people who had not seen anything and that the girls were certainly not as fine or smart as those of the states...B1Maria Chapdelaine
  • — Le misérable!» s’écria Milady."The wretched one!" cried Milady.B2Les Trois Mousquetaires
  • – Et, Dieu seul sait les souffrances que le misérable me réservait...!"And only God knows the sufferings that the wretched man reserved for me!"B2Le Chevalier de Mornac
  • Ils virent dans leur route de nombreux débris des nations vaincues et dispersées par la confédération iroquoise, traînant dans les forêts une existence misérable.They saw in their way many debris of the nations defeated and dispersed by the Iroquois confederation, dragging a miserable existence into the forests.C1Histoire du Canada, tome I

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