miserable failure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmiserableandfailure
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miserable
adjective
uk/ˈmɪz.ər.ə.bəl/us/ˈmɪz.ɚ.ə.bəl/
very ...
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failure
noun
uk/ˈfeɪ.ljər/us/ˈfeɪ.ljɚ/
the fact of someone or something ...
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(Definition ofmiserableandfailurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It was amiserablefailure.
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The whole thing was amiserablefailure.
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The outcome was amiserablefailure.
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Such experiments have been amiserablefailure.
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Attempts to agree on voluntary regulation were amiserablefailure.
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In many aspects, it has been amiserablefailure.
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Of course, they have been amiserablefailure.
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The results show that it has been amiserablefailure.
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Miserablefailurewas the first.
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What then would they blame for theirmiserablefailureas a nation?
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They have been amiserablefailurefrom every point of view.
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They did not know whether the result would be amiserablefailureor a great success.
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That is as well, because the policy is now revealed as amiserablefailure.
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It is to be feared that all this will end inmiserablefailure.
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If that was its purpose, it can only pass into history as amiserablefailure.
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We cannot gainsay the fact that it proved, on the whole, to be amiserablefailure.
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It was for him amiserablefailure.
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The 15 million offences committed last year show that cosmetic and piecemeal action has been amiserablefailure.
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We have tried that for 400 years and the history of those attempts has been a record ofmiserablefailure.
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I should have thought after themiserablefailurewe have had it would not have appeared again.
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Is it not a sign of an arrogant failure to listen that leads to amiserablefailureto deliver?
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That autumn has gone, we were told the same last year and was not thatmiserablefailureentirely predictable?
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Along with that deficit—a deficit of historic proportions—we are experiencing themiserablefailureof our export performance.
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I understand that that firm did a similar exercise in the steel industry and that its recommendations were amiserablefailure.
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Does he not, therefore, agree that the movement of only 830 cattle under the scheme shows what amiserablefailureit has been?
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