[ US /ˈɹɛtʃ/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɛt‍ʃ/ ]
NOUN
  1. performs some wicked deed
  2. someone you feel sorry for
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How To Use wretch In A Sentence

  • Davenport advances, Rubin absorbs wretched start to U.S. USATODAY.com - Davenport advances, Rubin absorbs wretched start to U.S. Open
  • And I am dreading having to look the people who have witnessed my wretched performance in the eye over dinner. Times, Sunday Times
  • Any dog not in harness was howling and yelping to be put in one, and even when harnessed they continued with their wretched wailing until they were off and running.
  • Here he connects to that discussion the situation of the wretched offspring who are undutiful toward their parents.
  • The picture of these poor mites could not be more wretched. Times, Sunday Times
  • I must have cut a wretched figure, filthy and sunburnt, to the brother who heard my explanations about who I was and why I was here.
  • They will drink their wretched heartless stuff, such as they call claret, or wine of Medoc, or Bordeaux, or what not, with no more meaning than sour rennet, stirred with the pulp from the cider press, and strained through the cap of our Betty. Lorna Doone
  • Thereupon Shawahi came forward and kissing the ground before the Queen, took the hem of her garment and laid it on her head, saying, O Queen, by my claim for fosterage, be not hasty with him, more by token of thy knowledge that this poor wretch is a stranger, who hath adventured himself and suffered what none ever suffered before him, and Allah (to whom belong Might and The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Don't speak to me that way, you wretched fiend.
  • the poor tarred-and-feathered wretch
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