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"miserable" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often wretched (8 letters).
Definitions
contemptibly small in amount
Word origin
Borrowed from Middle French miserable, from Old French, from Latin miserabilis, equivalent to miser + -able.
Used in a sentence
“The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation”
“He's good at some sports, like tennis, but he's just miserable at football.”
“a miserable sinner”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Deeply unhappy”9 letters
02“Very unhappy”9 letters
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