- misery memoir
- UK [ˈmɪzəriːˌmemwɑː(r)] / US [ˈmɪzəriːˌmemwɑr]
noun [countable]
a book that someone writes about their own life in which they describe mainly sad things that have happened to them
English dictionary. 2014.
misery memoir
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