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contemptibly small in amount
a measly tip; the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief; a paltry wage; almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans
(adj) wretched
characterized by physical misery
a wet miserable weekend; spent a wretched night on the floor
(adj) abject, scummy, scurvy, low, low-down
of the most contemptible kind
abject cowardice; a low stunt to pull; a low-down sneak; his miserable treatment of his family; You miserable skunk!; a scummy rabble; a scurvy trick
(adj) hapless, poor, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, wretched, misfortunate, pathetic
deserving or inciting pity
a hapless victim; miserable victims of war; the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic- Galsworthy; piteous appeals for help; pitiable homeless children; a pitiful fate; Oh, you poor thing; his poor distorted limbs; a wretched life
very unhappy; full of misery
he felt depressed and miserable; a message of hope for suffering humanity; wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages
(adj) deplorable, execrable, woeful, wretched
of very poor quality or condition
deplorable housing conditions in the inner city; woeful treatment of the accused; woeful errors of judgment