miserable

Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

He's good at some sports, like tennis, but he's just miserable at football.

a miserable sinner

For what's more miserable than discontent?

the liberal-hearted man is by the opinion of the prodigal miserable, and by the judgment of the miserable lavish