miserable; tragic

tragedy; calamity; atrocity

plaintive; mournful; miserable

to suffer (defeat, death etc)

bitter; painful; deeply distressed

to die tragically; to meet with a violent death

lit. so horrible that one cannot bear to look (idiom); fig. miserable; horrendous; atrocious

to suffer a crushing defeat

disastrous

bitter; desperate

to scream; blood-curdling screech; miserable shriek

massacre; tragedy; CL:起[qi3]

(coll.) to play up one's misfortune to gain sympathy; to fish for pity

disaster

tragic situation; dreadful state

calamitous turn of events; (of one's complexion) to change markedly due to shock, illness etc; to turn deathly pale

wretched situation

grieved; distressed

(literary) to massacre; to slaughter; to brutally kill

wretched sight

to slaughter; to kill mercilessly

cruel; vicious

dark; gloomy; dismal; by painstaking effort

variant of 慘淡|惨淡[can3 dan4]

grieved; distressed

devastation; miserable condition

deathly pale

terrible tragedy; grave mishap

bitter smile

dark red

(literary) cruel; savage; merciless

(idiom) too appalling to look at

Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo 維克多·雨果|维克多·雨果[Wei2 ke4 duo1 · Yu3 guo3]

(idiom) dreadful to hear

inhuman (idiom); brutal and unfeeling

to manage by painstaking effort (idiom)

extremely tragic (idiom); with unprecedented brutality

to meet with disaster; to die tragically

(of women) grieved appearance (idiom); sorrowful mien

the massacre of 12th Mar 1927; the Shanghai coup of 12th Mar 1927 by Chiang Kai-shek against the communists