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"misery" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often woe (3 letters).
Definitions
a feeling of intense unhappiness
Word origin
From Middle English miserie, from Old French miserie (modern: misère), from Latin miseria, from miser, equivalent to miser + -y. Doublet of misère and mizeria.
Used in a sentence
“Ever since his wife left him you can see the misery on his face.”
“For miſerie doth braueſt mindes abate, / And make them ſeeke for that they wont to ſcorne, / Of fortune and of hope at once forlorne.”
“It was not just the confusion that unhappiness brings, it was not just the loneliness, it was the despair that accompanies all those emotions that turns unhappiness into utter misery.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Great unhappiness”6 letters
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