MISERABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does miserably mean? 

• MISERABLY (adverb)
  The adverb MISERABLY has 1 sense:

1. in a miserable manner

  Familiarity information: MISERABLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISERABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a miserable manner

Context example:

I bit my lip miserably and nodded

Pertainym:

miserable (characterized by physical misery)

 Context examples 

To die so miserably; to feel the murderer’s grasp!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

And when he got to the well and stooped over the water to drink, the heavy stones made him fall in, and he drowned miserably.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

We shivered miserably throughout the night.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Deceived myself, I did very miserably deceive you—and it will be a painful reflection to me for ever.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“Youth will be served, masters,” droned the old man, shaking his head miserably.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There she fell miserably short of the true heroic height.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

My present state is miserably irksome.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But all these tokens of past grandeur were miserably decayed and dirty; rot, damp, and age, had weakened the flooring, which in many places was unsound and even unsafe.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Yet so miserably had he conducted himself, that though she was at this present time (the summer of 1814) wearing black ribbons for his wife, she could not admit him to be worth thinking of again.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Therefore since money alone was able to perform all these feats, our Yahoos thought they could never have enough of it to spend, or to save, as they found themselves inclined, from their natural bent either to profusion or avarice; that the rich man enjoyed the fruit of the poor man’s labour, and the latter were a thousand to one in proportion to the former; that the bulk of our people were forced to live miserably, by labouring every day for small wages, to make a few live plentifully.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)