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# miserably

«miserably» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a very unhappy or wretched way; sadly and with misery** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

In a very unhappy or wretched way; sadly and with misery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miserably/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, someone who sobs, sighs or lives in a sad and poor state

### examples

- The puppy whined miserably in the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miserably/#x1)
- He sat miserably on the step after losing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miserably/#x2)
- They lived miserably in a damp cottage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miserably/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «miserably» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miserably/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.