abject

Esimerkkilauseet

Today, the remote descendants of these feared hordes are condemned to abject poverty.

Most of his fellow - sufferers avoid frank discussions about the abject conditions in their home country.

48019 2bn people live in abject poverty and more than half of them go hungry every single day.

dismal

Esimerkkilauseet

Whether total or partial, privatisation will only make an already dismal situation worse.

The dismal upshot of this civil war is millions of refugees and total deaths estimated at over a million.

forlorn

meager

miserable

pitiful

Esimerkkilauseet

Administrative payments are in a pitiful state.

poor

Esimerkkilauseet

Only the poor know what it is to be poor.

The plan now is to take the money away from some poor regions to give it to other poor regions.

But hysteria makes for a poor counsellor.

In addition, provision of information is poor.

47992 Because a poor image is being created.

sad

Esimerkkilauseet

It is a sad day for agricultural policy, and a sad day for the taxpayer.

That is a very sad reality.

12632 They are very sad happenings indeed.

20205 And this is, perhaps, a sad consolation.

My country is a sad example of this.

squalid

unenviable

Esimerkkilauseet

Algerian journalists are in an unenviable situation.

It is my unenviable privilege to share your concern.

unhappy

Esimerkkilauseet

I am unhappy with two aspects.

It is all a very unhappy situation.

I am very unhappy that this has been blocked by some governments.

This is a legally uncertain basis for legislation and that makes me unhappy.

wretched