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- noun One who is
unhappy , or extols beingmiserable as a virtue; a philosopher ofpessimism .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But in hindsight I can’t deny that there was something fundamentally “dark” about the RS books, a kind of miserabilist ruling aesthetic or purple-tinged gothlike mood.
Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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Something that a gay teen might rather prefer to see than some miserabilist tale aimed at middle-class post-college hipsters and chin-strokers?
Archive 2010-02-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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Something that a gay teen might rather prefer to see than some miserabilist tale aimed at middle-class post-college hipsters and chin-strokers?
Whatever the Fuck You Want Hal Duncan 2010
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The associated childhood memory is of my miserabilist next-door neighbour, Mr Fletcher, who mowed his lawn twice a week (so it was carpet-like and perfect) and would never give my ball back.
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For in these miserabilist times we are living in, it has become de rigeur to discuss our fellow citizens with an attitude of contempt.
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It lowers the scale of monstrosity so our state of shock is not quite so heightened, our suspension of disbelief not quite so tested, but even at the level of miserabilist British TV soap operas like Eastenders the private narrative is not always as mundane as it purports to be.
Strange Fiction 4 Hal Duncan 2006
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It lowers the scale of monstrosity so our state of shock is not quite so heightened, our suspension of disbelief not quite so tested, but even at the level of miserabilist British TV soap operas like Eastenders the private narrative is not always as mundane as it purports to be.
Archive 2006-07-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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Most such shops are run by miserabilist Islamist organisations.
Every Letter a Bullet, Every Word a Bomb Sharon Bakar 2005
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Most such shops are run by miserabilist Islamist organisations.
Archive 2005-08-01 Sharon Bakar 2005
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I still look at the online edition but refuse to pay money for such a miserabilist paper
bilby commented on the word miserabilist
"In government, this speech morphed into the Coalition policy expressed in the miserabilist budget of 2014, where unemployed people under 30 had to "wait" six months to receive the dole, hospital and university funding was cut and the Medicare co-payment was introduced."
- Jacqueline Maley, Age of entitlement is over, but no one told the banks, or Malcolm Turnbull's backbench, Sydney Morning Herald, 8 April 2016. http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/age-of-entitlement-is-over-but-no-one-told-the-banks-or-malcolm-turnbulls-backbench-20160407-go17r8#ixzz45HSDSZSa
April 8, 2016