What's the difference between despised and miserable?

Despised


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Despise

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Indeed, it is democracy itself that the markets seem to despise.
  • (2) We were immediately sure he despised the movie more than any of the other Hollywood McCarthy adaptations – and there had been a few stinkers.
  • (3) Disowned by family and despised by public opinion, she is now in prison.
  • (4) The militant group, which despises foreign intervention, has expelled numerous international and local aid groups from the territory it controls.
  • (5) First, medicine was despised as a mechanical art or suspected of paganism because of its literary sources.
  • (6) How would you describe a person with an adoring sister and admiring father creating a child despised by father and siblings?
  • (7) In the wake of plunging costs in global market, prices on the forecourt have fallen much faster than household heating bills, which may be why petrol and oil companies are less despised than home energy suppliers – also being named by 26%.
  • (8) He has been derided in these pages, but that derision is surpassed by the venomous hatred of the Daily Mail , which loathes the Cameron government in any case and particularly despised Mitchell in his previous job.
  • (9) "I've always despised it to a certain degree but after this last few years and all this nonsense with the films, I believe it to be a completely poisonous place that isn't really going anywhere.
  • (10) Though he despised “race-baiting”, Noir wrote, “covert racism is a real thing and is very dangerous.
  • (11) So far, concerns about reproductions creeping on to the collectibles market seem greater than any worries about the reintroduction of objects that resurrect old, despised stereotypes.
  • (12) It's a melancholy fate for any writer to become an eponym for all that he despised, but that is what happened to George Orwell, whose memory is routinely abused in unthinking uses of the adjective "Orwellian".
  • (13) What an irony that our own MPs and peers, who complain so bitterly about the draining of British sovereignty to Brussels, were not trusted to discuss this issue – while the despised European parliament has, over the past year, freely, intelligently, intricately and repeatedly addressed it.
  • (14) The group despised the liberal socialism of the dominant Labour Zionists and its goal was an "Iron Wall" to defend Jews against what they deemed would be an inevitable backlash by Arabs.
  • (15) They were never aggressive, they were never forcing it down your throat … but you were left with no illusions looking at their social media that they were a) Chelsea fans and b) Ukip supporters.” He said he “despised” racism and described the actions on the film as appalling, adding that it in no way represented the views of most people at his former school.
  • (16) Vronsky, who had despised Karenin because he wouldn't fight a duel, is now humiliated and dishonoured; Karenin, flooded with forgiveness for everyone, wins back Anna's respect.
  • (17) He promised to take us "to the heart of Europe", but left behind a country more Europhobic than ever – and more despised in a Europe that he berated to appease Rupert Murdoch.
  • (18) They despised Bond's characters, his "slavishly literal bawdry", the lack of artistry in his writing.
  • (19) Malone, who was made a billionaire several times over by the AT&T deal, despised being answerable to the parent company's board and wanted out.
  • (20) Johnson was despised on the right and left by the time he was driven from office in 1968.

Miserable


Definition:

  • (a.) Very unhappy; wretched.
  • (a.) Causing unhappiness or misery.
  • (a.) Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner.
  • (a.) Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.
  • (n.) A miserable person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He told strikers at St Thomas’ hospital, London: “By taking action on such a miserable morning you are sending a strong message that decent men and women in the jewel of our civilisation are not prepared to be treated as second-class citizens any more.
  • (2) "It's always been done in a really miserable way in the past, but this is fresh and new.
  • (3) Supporting a Sunderland side who had last won a home Premier League game back in January, when Stoke City were narrowly defeated, is not a pursuit for the faint-hearted but this was turning into the equivalent of the sudden dawning of a gloriously hot sunny day amid a miserable, cold, wet summer.
  • (4) People like Hugo forgot how truly miserable Paris had been for ordinary Parisians.” Out of a job and persona non grata in Paris, Haussmann spent six months in Italy to lift his spirits.
  • (5) But my characters are either really strong, miserable or tortured."
  • (6) A full marching band moved through a sea of umbrellas, playing the Les Miserables song Do You Hear the People Sing.
  • (7) Similarly at world level, it considers the struggles and efforts by the miserable and oppressed nations for achievement of their legitimate rights and independence as their due rights, because people have the right to liberate their countries from colonialism and obtain their rights.
  • (8) My first marriage is the only thing I've ever failed at and I failed miserably."
  • (9) If after 10 years the Californian law is working well: that’s to say it is not being used against the weak and miserable as a cheaper alternative to proper palliative care, there will be no reason not to extend it here.
  • (10) Low point: "When a show I directed, Paul Simon's The Capeman, failed miserably."
  • (11) The smile, so noticeably absent during a miserable final season at his boyhood club, was back.
  • (12) His father died when Giulio was two, and the family survived on his mother's miserly widow's pension.
  • (13) Roberto Firmino and Adam Lallana established a comfortable advantage for the home side, only for Adam Johnson’s free-kick, and Simon Mignolet’s weak attempt to stop it, plus Defoe’s clinical late strike to extend Liverpool’s miserable run to five points out of 18 in 2016.
  • (14) This drubbing exposed not only the team's inadequacy on the day in the face of a rampant United side who sensed miserable resistance almost from the kick-off, but also Arsène Wenger's tepid commitment to the FA Cup, whatever his ready-made complaints of depleted resources before and after.
  • (15) "He truly had such a miserable time on the first day or two of the shoot.
  • (16) Fair pay, not benefits or subsidies to miserly employers, brought Labour into being – so why is the party in danger of letting this strong emblematic policy slip away?
  • (17) On the positive side, it will very soon overtake Les Miserables (£40.8m) to become the second-biggest 2013 release, behind only Despicable Me 2 (£47.4m).
  • (18) Smoldering resentment, chronic anger, self-centeredness, vindictiveness, and a constant feeling of being abused ultimately produce a miserable human being who, as well as being alienated from self, alienates those in the interpersonal sphere.
  • (19) As soon as you live in the place, it becomes grey and miserable – as do the people.
  • (20) The good thing about the above is the equal-opportunities nature of it: almost everyone is made to feel inadequate or miserable.

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