Preposition: as

• sin: And he was as miserable as sin, and he gave me a wretched time all evening.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: Technology makes people miserable, sparking technology to avoid the miserable people.

Modifies a noun

• sod: Good thing you're in the Tory party, you miserable sod.

• git: Trevor [ Foster ] says I was a miserable git in the old days at Jordan.

• bastard: I played to some miserable bastards in a small bar in the center of Manchester for very little laughter or money.

• wretch: Oh, was there in all the world a more miserable wretch than he!

• sinner: We all stand before God as ' miserable sinners ' ; debtors in need of mercy.

• bugger: I know, I'm a miserable old bugger.

Modifying Another Word

• downright: I have had many periods in my own life when I have been downright miserable and unhappy.

• utterly: It says and does not say that London is utterly miserable.

• thoroughly: On a wet, windy and thoroughly miserable Friday I decide to meet a couple of friends at Ascot.

• pretty: They're a pretty miserable lot on the whole.

• absolutely: Unlike most of our contemporaries at the time we didn't make music for any other reason than it made us absolutely miserable not to.

• truly: We are joyful, therefore, because we are truly miserable!

Used with adjective complement

• feel: You may feel miserable, like crying, or you may go off your food.

• look: I'd heard that live, The Kills usually just stand there, looking miserable.

• become: But if we cannot have them then we become miserable.

• make: My days were made miserable by a steady stream of offensive comments.

• get: He gets so miserable, that he creeps away.

Preposition: of

• man: I shall be the most miserable of men if you don't.