Unfortunately, some of our best intellects turn out the most miserable specimens of penman-ship conceivable and some of them are almost indecipherable.
Even inside the hut I felt a miserable specimen, and what's more, not only in your eyes but in the eyes of the whole world, for you were for me the measure of all things.
Harrison was the kind of man who liked having such squalid creatures around-- made him feel real good about himself, by contrast, Hooch figured, but Hooch didn't like seeing such miserable specimens of humanity.
"What a miserable specimen of a man you are!"
He was a miserable specimen of a man.
She might feel bad, she might be a miserable specimen of human life, she might be in the midst of a traumatic childhood experience, but she was not going to submit to Achilles for one moment longer than she had to.
"To warn us that people can be brought to Earth by the Keeper, and yet be such miserable specimens of humanity that he has no more use for them and allows them to wipe each other out."
And then there is Senator Van Horn, a miserable specimen of mankind.
You seem a miserable specimen, but I like a challenge.
As an apparition he is a pretty miserable specimen.