miseria

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miseria
feminine noun
1 poverty (pobreza)
2 misfortune (desgracia)
3 meanness (tacañería)
4 baseness, wretchedness (vileza)
5 pittance (poco dinero)
  • le pagan una miseria -> they pay him next to nothing

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miseria [me-say’-re-ah]
noun
1 Misery, miserableness, calamity, wretchedness, forlornness, need; oppression. (f)
2 Covetousness, avariciousness, narrowness, hardness, stinginess, meanness (tacañría). (f)
3 Trifle, a very small matter. (f)
4 Poverty (pobreza), want (carencia). (f)
5 Squalor, squalid conditions (condiciones). (f)
  • Caer en la miseria -> to fall into abject poverty

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miseria
sustantivo:femenino
1 (pobreza) poverty; destitution
caer en la miseria to fall into poverty; vivir en la miseria to live in poverty
2 (insignificancia)
una miseria a pittance
a los pescadores les pagan una miseria trabajar como un esclavo, cobrando una miseria lavan, limpian, etc, todo por una miseria Suelen ser médicos en el paro que cobran una miseria
3 (tacañería) meanness; stinginess
4 (anticuado) (parásitos) fleas; (p) lice; (p)
estar lleno de miseria to be covered with vermin

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