Miserabilist

Gissing is never more of a miserabilist than when trying to be light-hearted.

An old, failed actor who lived on his own, he never had friends dropping by, because he was a bedridden inconsiderate miserabilist.

The former Smiths singer, professional miserabilist, vegetarian and gladioli-distributor has posed nude for the inner sleeve artwork for his new single, Heaven Knows I'm Naked Now.

She said center-right French politicians have started disparaging climate activists as “miserabilists”, […]

This is a radical difference between the naturalism of the miserabilist approach, and the naturalism practiced by the Romanian New Wave.