They are portrayed as miserable, crafty and vicious beings.

When his end comes upon him, be certain he will do nothing to preserve your miserable being.

He recalled feeling like "the most selfish, sycophantic and miserable human being" and "the worst person I knew."

Inside him is a fractured, miserable human being.

Nor did the factory system and the "industrial revolution" have the least thing to do with creating those hordes of miserable beings.

The Struldbrugs keep getting older and are probably the most miserable beings alive.

"The one was the most fortunate of men; the other the most unhappy of miserable beings."

In this case there are no miserable beings to contend with.

"My father was a deeply miserable human being," Jonathan Shaw said in a telephone conversation yesterday.

Sire, by the thought of your own dying hour, I conjure you have compassion on these miserable beings!