miserableness

He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while.

She found a glory in this evidence of her miserableness.

This miserableness went on as much as six or seven minutes; but it seemed a sight longer than that.

"The Greeks believed that the gods gave them wine so that they might forget the miserableness of existence.

The more Jerusha preached to them about the miserableness of their sin, the more heartily they agreed.

Now one, and now another, and sometimes several, either from being knocked down by seas or from general miserableness, take to the bunk for a day or so off.

Mr. Greene's letters to his wife and others leave no doubt of the sway "miserableness" (the word he once used to describe his state of mind) had over him periodically.

Have you ever noticed that on these custom projects, the single most common cause of overruns, failures, and general miserableness always boils down to, basically, "the (insert expletive here) customer didn't know what they wanted?"

While use of that term rapidly degenerated to apply to sappy miserableness by the decade's end, here the quartet capture its original sense: wired, frenetic, screaming passion, as first semi-created by the likes of Rites of Spring."

It was a misty morning of belated snow slush, and suited him to a perfection of miserableness, as he stood before the great dripping department store which now occupied the big plot of ground where once had stood both the Amberson Hotel and the Amberson Opera House.