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trial, tribulation, adversity, burden, affliction: She cannot<br />

bear the twin miseries of illness and poverty. 4 spoilsport,<br />

damper, killjoy, dampener, Job's comforter, grouch, grump,<br />

malcontent, pessimist, cynic, prophet of doom, Cassandra, Colloq<br />

wet blanket, sourpuss, US party pooper, gloomy Gus, picklepuss:<br />

How can you stand living with such a misery?<br />

misfire v. 1 fail, abort, miscarry, go wrong, fizzle (out), fall<br />

through, Colloq flop, come a cropper, Brit go phut, US go pfft<br />

or phft: The plan to take over the conglomerate misfired when<br />

the shares soared in price.<br />

--n. 2 miscarriage, failure, fizzle, dud, Colloq abort, flop:<br />

After two misfires, we gave up trying to buy a time-share in the<br />

Algarve.<br />

misfit n. oner, eccentric, individual, nonconformist, maverick, square<br />

peg in a round hole: People regard him as one of society's<br />

misfits and tend to steer clear.<br />

misfortune<br />

n. 1 bad luck, ill luck, ill fortune, hard luck, infelicity,<br />

adversity, loss: He had the misfortune to marry the wrong<br />

woman. 2 accident, misadventure, mishap, calamity, catastrophe,<br />

mischance, disaster, contretemps, tragedy, blow, shock; reverse,<br />

stroke of bad luck, Colloq bad news: With the death of his<br />

father, then his illness, then the loss of his business, one<br />

misfortune followed another.<br />

misgiving n. apprehension, mistrust, worry, concern, anxiety, qualm,<br />

scruple, disquiet, hesitation, doubt, question, uncertainty,<br />

suspicion, unease, uneasiness, discomfort; dread, premonition,<br />

foreboding, Colloq funny feeling: I had grave misgivings about<br />

driving all that way on my own.<br />

misguided adj. misled, wrong, misdirected, foolish, unreasonable,<br />

erroneous, mistaken, misplaced, imprudent, unwise, impolitic,<br />

ill-advised, fallacious, uncalled-for, labouring under a<br />

misapprehension, wide of the mark, Colloq off (the mark),<br />

barking up the wrong tree: Her helpfulness is often misguided,<br />

ending in disaster for all concerned.<br />

mishandle v. 1 abuse, mistreat, maltreat, ill-treat, beat (up),

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