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misery loves company exp.
expression meaning that someone who is not happy tends to find comfort in seeing others unhappy too

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misery  


      n   pl   , -eries  
1    intense unhappiness, discomfort, or suffering; wretchedness  
2    a cause of such unhappiness, discomfort, etc.  
3    squalid or poverty-stricken conditions  
4      (Brit)  
informal   a person who is habitually depressed  
he is such a misery     
5    Dialect   a pain or ailment  
     (C14: via Anglo-Norman from Latin miseria, from miser wretched)  
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miserly, miser, mise, miserably

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v.
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exp.
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exp.
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acronym
n.
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exp.
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exp.
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