How To Use Wretched In A Sentence

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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
Don't speak to me that way, you wretched fiend.
Such synecdoches are central to reformist representation, which relies on one ‘wretched woman’ to stand in for all.
However I'm not cured of the wretched cold and cough that have been my companions for over a week now.
The opening scene is an interview - about the wretchedness of conditions in the theatre, poking fun at the cumbersome bureaucracy which soils it.
Society on a small discovery which he had made by the aid of a "wretched microscope" to the effect that the so-called ova of Flustra were really larvæ and had the power of independent action by means of cilia. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
That be a wretched piece of luck. A Time of War
You had far better all die -- _die immediately_, than live slaves, and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity. Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life And Also Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the United States of America
It was quite a battle persuading them to look at my wretched video at all. Times, Sunday Times
I suppose that wretched grommet of hers has upped sails and left port,' said Jake with a grunt. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
Sustained by the truth received from her divine Founder, the Church has ever sought to fulfill holily the mission entrusted to her by God; unconquered by the difficulties on all sides surrounding her, she has never ceased to assert her liberty of teaching, and in this way the wretched superstition of paganism being dispelled, the wide world was renewed unto Christian wisdom. Libertas Praestantissimum
They try so hard to please their parents and even harder to understand them, and their resulting wretchedness is one of the most haunting subplots of the novel. Suburbs of Our Discontent
That wretched child I'll swing for him one of these days!
She would have wretched and thrown up at that very moment but luckily, she hadn't eaten anything today so she would be fit to scry.
He was wretched when he failed the examination.
The dog leaped away without a sound; the man, raising his voice a little, said with a slow laugh, ‘Look at that wretched cur,’ and directly afterwards we became separated by a lot of people pushing in.
Things actually have gotten better, and not just because we are no longer pictured exclusively as wretched suicides and guilt-ridden reprobates.
You have built up a huge property empire by buying from wretched people who had to sell or starve.
I knew it was a woman from the bungling, unmanlike way that pistol was laid in the dead hand; the only question I had to answer was _which_ woman -- Fifi, Lady Stavornell, or this wretched little hypocrite. Cleek, the Master Detective
'Jesu,' he groaned and, feeling utterly wretched, pressed his forehead against the cold stone of the merlon. The Falcons of Montabard
When Patrick Douglas, the learned and honoured, but fortuneless soldier, found that his new competitor for the hand of the gentle Jolande was none other than his sovereign, he was dumb with despair, and the last, the miserable _hope_ which it imparts, and which maketh wretched, began to leave him. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17
It is true that the wretched weather has left them short of match practice and there is little cricket over the next few days in which to get their rhythm back.
Then we were subjected to a performance by some wretched tango orchestra. The Times Literary Supplement
After all, there's nothing particularly joyful about me when I eventually do get around to the whole wretched business.
I suppose that wretched grommet of hers has upped sails and left port,' said Jake with a grunt. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
He has to wait in the church for the other confessors to finish, which leaves him plenty of time to keep meditating on the wretchedness of his sins.
What wretched ends on curs'd ambition wait I See! where, a prey, unboned Curio lies, The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets
The role of A Vijayaraghavan, MP, was significant in securing Indian citizenship for these wretched people.
A fanatic easily makes conquests among a wretched people.
I plopped onto the couch and that wretched dog hopped up next to me and began to bark.
Since none of these parties has the slightest chance of capturing an office higher than municipal dogcatcher, you'll never have to kick yourself when your dream candidate proves wretched once in power.
Good, as goodness might be measured in their particular class, hard-working for meagre wages and scorning the sale of self for easier ways, nervously desirous for some small pinch of happiness in the desert of existence, and facing a future that was a gamble between the ugliness of unending toil and the black pit of more terrible wretchedness, the way whereto being briefer though better paid. Chapter 6
After fluttering thus from branch to branch, like the poor birdling that cannot take its flight, discouraged by his wretched attempts at life, he plunged straight before him, hoping for nothing but a turn of luck, driving over the roads and fields, lending a hand to the farmers, sleeping in stables and garrets, or oftener in the open air; sometimes charitably sheltered in a kind man's barn, and perhaps -- oh bliss! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
He is wretched, weak, ugly, inspiring contempt and disgust in not only all the supposedly good-hearted characters but also the reader.
You know how wretched it is to eat something you shouldn't have and spend the next day and a half miserably expelling it from your body.
The wretched survivors told rescuers the boat 's skipper abandoned them - although it was unclear last night how he managed to flee. The Sun
The only glimmer of hope for these wretched people is the emergence of organised resistance to the present policies.
Those are powerful emotions, and what do we do when we feel wretched? Times, Sunday Times
Wherfore we, wretched and miserable synners, render unto thee most humble and hartie thankes, that yt hath pleased thee to call us home to thy folde by thy Fatherly correction at this present, wheras in our prosperitie and libertie we dyd neglect thy graces offered unto us. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
I never write 'valetudinarian' at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; Mark Twain's Speeches
Can it be right to demand so much of such a young child, however great his talent appears and however wretched a life sold by his poverty-stricken mother to a pedlar who beat him he had led before? TV review: Leaving Amish Paradise; Kidult: Marathon Boy
He moved to plunge the dagger in but the weapon was wretched from his grip by a powerful hand as the other gripped his wrist and tore it away.
Now he can return to his normal wretched existence as a very unfree man indeed. Times, Sunday Times
He understood now why the wretched diplomat could be persuaded to perjure himself. DOUBLE DECEIT
The house was in a wretched state.
Poor Admiral Boxer has fallen a victim to its remorseless gripe, and is buried at the head of the harbour, where he worked so hard, early and late, to endeavour to rescue Balaklava from the plague-stricken wretchedness in which he found it a few months before. Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol
Nicholas hardly dared to look out of the window; but he did so, and the very first object that met his eyes was the wretched Smike: so bedabbled with mud and rain, so haggard and worn, and wild, that, but for his garments being such as no scarecrow was ever seen to wear, he might have been doubtful, even then, of his identity. Nicholas Nickleby
wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages
First it's blogger "sooey," asserting that middle-of-the-road blogger Marky Mark and the wretched anti-Semite "arthurdecco" are one and the same person -- and that they're probably both that other wretch, "shlemazl. Archive 2009-05-01
A typical heder enrolled forty to fifty boys, often in wretched physical quarters, after public school hours to learn mechanical reading of Hebrew, siddur, hummash, and Mishnah. Education of Jewish Girls in the United States.
Not so much 'dark tourism' as an enlightening account of a wretched tsarist penal system. The Times Literary Supplement
He sits on the bank and, wretched, stares into the purling water.
The horse thus vicariously fulfilling the functions of a plate of soup was a wretched glandered beast -- not old, but shunned on account of the contagious nature of his disease. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
After another blast of the wretched conditions that have blighted this season's major championships, a motley crew of contenders have lined up at Hazeltine to exploit the uncertainty.
I was trotted out at these wretched award banquets like the March of Dimes child.
That will certainly impair your sleep, and leave you feeling wretched the next day. Times, Sunday Times
That wretched apology of a creature stripped from me my dirt-encrusted shirt that I had worn since my entrance to solitary, and exposed my poor wasted body, the skin ridged like brown parchment over the ribs and sore-infested from the many bouts with the jacket The examination was shamelessly perfunctory. Chapter 10
I will make life so hard for these wretched lummoxes who pass for my servants that the atrocities of Ivan the Terrible will seem like a fairy-picnic!
Everybody in this wretched place was looking out for Ken. The Sun
Most live in conditions so abject that there is little to distinguish them from the most wretched chattel slaves of the past.
The wretchedness of her expression wrenched his heart, but he made no move toward her. The Unforgiven
He would not creep about the country with moaning voice and melancholy eyes, with draggled dress and outward signs of wretchedness.
The wood that had been drawn for the fire was green, and it ignited too slowly to satisfy the shivering impatience of women and children; I vented mine in audibly grumbling over the wretched fire, at which I in vain endeavoured to thaw frozen bread, and to dress crying children. Roughing It in the Bush
As an 1825 poem has it: "Fearing the winters/ Endless and icy/ Nobody will visit/ This wretched country/ This vast prison house for exiles.
On its simplest level, it traces two calamitous marriages: one between the sweet, idealistic Dorothea Brooke (Juliet Aubrey) and priggishly meanspirited Rev. Edward Casaubon (Patrick Malahide), the other pairing equally idealistic Dr. Tertius Lydgate (Douglas Hodge) with the wretchedly selfish Rosamond Vincy (Trevyn McDowell). By George, We've Got It
Ask the wretched hunter of chevreuil, the poor devourer of rehbraten, what they think of the noble English haunch, that, after bounding in the Park of Knole or Windsor, exposes its magnificent flank upon some broad silver platter at our tables? The Fitz-Boodle Papers
The movie also sketches in the five-year-long, globe-girdling voyage during which he collected the compendious data for his book, along with much peripheral information about his health (wretched), his relationship with his devoutly religious wife (strained) and his apparently never-ending connection to his dead 10-year-old daughter (feverish). Kurt Loder Reviews ‘Creation’ » MTV Movies Blog
In fact, they mattered more than her wretchedness, even more than my loved, lost and delinquent father who had put us in this situation.
They had heard so very little of this; yet it was enough to build up wretched dolorous dreams upon, there in the shade of the night.
But there were no fresh stains on that wall this morning, and the graves remained undug, though here and there were seen the first marks of spades where the wretched victims had begun to dig. Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs
How wretched are lovers all," Hapless are lovers all e'en even in the sepulchre, tombed in their tombs, The Life of Sir Richard Burton
Needless to say, Zinfer's very first day on Planet Earth had turned out to be an unbelievably wretched experience for the poor little prince.
How Charles Davis survives in that wet, freezing, paint-scabbed room of iron in the 'midship-house is beyond me -- just as it is beyond me that the wretched sailors in the wretched forecastle do not lie down in their bunks and die, or, at least, refuse to answer the call of the watches. CHAPTER XXXVII
Since then, though, their luck has been wretched. Times, Sunday Times
Some - optimistically - argued that it was a lack of 'guyliner' that was making him look so wretched. Times, Sunday Times
In less than a minute, he could destroy me utterly, reducing me to a tearful, trembling wreck, consumed with a wretched, self-loathing misery.
What was it specially that he called wretchedness? The Argonauts
Our hearts were wrung at this wretched sight and we longed to help; we even thought of giving it part of a drop of chlorodyne much diluted, but, fortunately for us, dared not do so, for my husband said to them, 'I do not think the child will live long.' Southern Arabia
He is wretched, weak, ugly, inspiring contempt and disgust in not only all the supposedly good-hearted characters but also the reader.
By such an estimate, nearly the whole number are accounted for by wretchedness, that is by economic causes, alone Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society
There are no prizes for guessing the political leanings of the wretched dog. The Sun
I could tell of the murder of that poor son of Zeus, whom Procne, mother of an only child, slew and offered to the Muses; but thou hadst three children, wretched parent, and all of them hast thou in thy frenzy slain. Heracles
It is he that makes the sinner see all the deformity and filthiness that is within; it is he that pulleth off all the sinner's rags, and makes him see his naked and wretched condition; it is he that shows us the blindness of the mind, the stubbornness of the will, the disorderedness of the affections, the searedness of the conscience, the plague of our hearts, and the sin of our natures, and therein the desperateness of our state. The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast.
More than anything else, this wretched film has about it an intense air of unreality.
Having once tasted the sweet wine prepared from honey or flowers, how can a woman, I fancy, relish the wretched arrak from rice? ' The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
Has he actually looked at the wretched things? Times, Sunday Times
They were no longer the oppressed, wretched teen menials who must take orders, toe the line.
Such was the people's peaceless token, the suffering of the _wretched_." l. Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850
In Bolton they pigged it in a wretched artisans' dwelling in Davenport Street. The project was none the less immensely successful.
Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched. Thomas Fuller
His son, Seebohm, had done more than anyone to expose the wretched living conditions of the poor in his 1901 treatise on the slums of York.
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Guy felt wretched about it now.
I cannot claim particularly wretched luck. Times, Sunday Times
WHEN STEVE BRODIE dived from the Brooklyn Bridge in 1886, his name reached into a wretched Negro cabin in Galveston, Texas, and so stirred a ragged Negro boy of twelve that he made up his mind to go to New York and meet Brodie in person. World’s Great Men of Color
And there are certain crimes still that are so heinous, so wretched, and so abominable that, yes, they do cry out for vengeance, and they do cry out for the death penalty.
In Het huisje aan de sloot (The Cottage by the Creek, 1921), she describes the wretched state of Jewish life in the so-called Mediene (Dutch Jewry outside the main urban centers like Amsterdam) and the hostility of non-Jews towards people they saw as foreigners. Modern Netherlands.
He leaned against the carved doorframe, hugging himself wretchedly, wondering why he could feel almost nothing, not even real grief -- just a kind of hollowness that nothing, throughout the length of his life, would ever again fill. The Silent Tower
Younger brother Prince Khurram promptly had him killed, as fraternal ambitions were not to be encouraged, even though the wretched Prince Khusrau was blind.
“Pray, who mentioned money, Mr. Meiklewham?” said her ladyship. — “That wretched old pettifogger,” she added in Saint Ronan's Well
Although they were all being tenderly cared for by wonderful nurses, with plenty of personal attention and attempts to comfort and stimulate them, they were absolutely wretched.
Workers and their families continued living in wretched conditions in the shadows of the buildings they had made.
They are then called upon to "weave the warp, and weave the woof," perhaps, with no great propriety; for it is by crossing the _woof_ with the _warp_ that men _weave_ the _web_ or piece; and the first line was dearly bought by the admission of its wretched correspondent, "give ample room and verge enough [198]. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
The hateful dress was mocking me. Therefore, the last thing I ever did in that house was to fling that wretched dress into the cleansing fire.
But Syjuco is only in his mid-30s, and he already possesses the wand of the enchanter, conjuring up striking scenes like this one: After buying a tiger for a pet, Salvador's blustering father decides to hand-feed the wretched animal some bacon. 'Ilustrado' by Miguel Syjuco, reviewed by Michael Dirda
Younger brother Prince Khurram promptly had him killed, as fraternal ambitions were not to be encouraged, even though the wretched Prince Khusrau was blind.
Half dead upon the spot where he was phlebotomized, the wretched animal was left to reflect under the shade of a tulip-tree on the cruelty of man, on their barbarous appetites; cursing with all his heart the poverty of Morvinian curates, their conceited hospitality, of which he was the victim, and their brutal affection for pig's blood. Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches
There were no crumbs of comfort from this wretched display. The Sun
But after a wretched start and a closing round of 74, he missed the final shake-out between the leading 75 players for the 35 places by three strokes.
Dad blows out his candles and opens presents and they devour slabs of cake while I sit there feeling wretched. Times, Sunday Times
I made a jest about the wretched bird, teasing Carra, like, and saying it was a sorcerer, most like. A TIME OF WAR
Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched. Thomas Fuller
In fact, people in the developing world have become relatively poorer and more wretched.
he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness
I cannot claim particularly wretched luck. Times, Sunday Times
In our Pestchanka, I remember, pike used to be caught a yard long, and there were eel-pouts, and roach, and bream, and every fish had a presentable appearance; while nowadays, if you catch a wretched little pikelet or perch six inches long you have to be thankful. The Witch, and other stories
The orders for this occupation were made by General Kearney before he left, in pursuance of instructions from the War Department, merely to subserve a political end, for there were few or no people in Lower California, which is a miserable, wretched, dried-up peninsula. Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
She said:'I had three months of treatment feeling wretched and absolutely nauseous last year. The Sun
Let him grow up poor in a wretched, arid land. Christianity Today
Eventually, the robbers left the bank with nothing more than their very queasy stomachs after having eaten a number of bowls of this wretched vanilla pudding.
Lawyers tend to be wretched writers, which is odd given that the written word is their stock in trade.
Say, whither art thou leading this glutton, thou wretched swineherd, this plaguy beggar, a kill-joy of the feast? Book XVII
Wretched brutes there at the cattlemarket waiting for the poleaxe to split their skulls open. November « 2008 « Sentence first
Ten minutes after roll-call the janitor let them out, and shortly afterwards a wretched procession of five emerged from Merishall's room with two hundred lines from Virgil hanging over each head for a missed call-over without excuse. Acton's Feud A Public School Story
Huge iron-clasped books lay before this ominous specimen of pinguitude -- the records of the realm of misery, in which office he officiated as prime minister; and had Peveril come thither as an unconcerned visitor, his heart would have sunk within him at considering the mass of human wretchedness which must needs be registered in these fatal volumes. Peveril of the Peak
The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music ‘except country.’
This picture has been recently wretchedly engraved in mezzotinto; all that is in the picture firm and hard, is in the print soft, fuzzy, and disagreeable. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843
Age after age has passed away, for no other purpose than to behold their wretchedness. Thomas Paine
The seasonal molt of their woolly winter hair makes them look even more wretched.
The effect was electrical: the motion was carried by acclamation and there was a unanimous rush for the now wretched mariner whose false alarm at the masthead was the cause of our embarrassment, but on second thoughts it was decided to substitute Captain Troutbeck, as less generally useful and more undeviatingly in error. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales
They operated and found this big, wretched, web-like cyst on my spine - a condition called spinal arachnoiditis. Times, Sunday Times
It is proposed to embank the famous old Tiber; and already the squalid quarter of the Ghetto has been invaded by the workmen, who are levelling the wretched dwellings that have for so many ages rendered its name a byword throughout the world, preparatory to the erection of new buildings. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
Selling municipal bonds in Atlanta was unthinkably wretched.
You have built up a huge property empire by buying from wretched people who had to sell or starve.
The moonlight caught her eyes; eyes that were trying, like the lips, to smile, but that were really looking away into the future, which she saw stripped of companionship and love, and gray with the ashiness of wretched desolation. The Call of the Cumberlands
And this is a question which demands immediate attention -- _immediate_ attention; for more than £26,000,000 are paid by taxpayers each year to be spent in great part on our wretched system of poor laws. Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
The title affixed to this bit of self-expression was Oh, Dearie, Round-Eyes Hara-Kiri: The Wretched Act. Over the Edge
But the statistics alone, as horrifying as they are, hardly convey the trauma, pain and wretchedness of the victims.
That wretched apology of a creature stripped from me my dirt - encrusted shirt that I had worn since my entrance to solitary, and exposed my poor wasted body, the skin ridged like brown parchment over the ribs and sore-infested from the many bouts with the jacket. Chapter 10
She said:'I had three months of treatment feeling wretched and absolutely nauseous last year. The Sun
Desperately poor health conditions are distributed with a wretched evenness across the land.
The fishing-fleet, as they call their wretched tubs, will come home, with the usual fuss, to-night, and on Monday it shall be ashes. Springhaven
Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched. Thomas Fuller
You aren't the complicated villain nor the wretched hero.
But in the attempt to incarnate and ensanguine it I failed wretchedly. Seven Men
That this whole wretched business has simply been one long, problematic excretion. GALILEE
Under the sideboard stands a cellaret that looks as if it held half a bottle of currant wine, and a shivering plate-warmer that never could get any comfort out of the wretched old cramped grate yonder. Mens Wives
Cursed, cursed be the fiend that brought misery on his grey hairs, and doomed him to waste in wretchedness! Chapter 23
Many people around the world experience, at some time or the other in their lifetimes, a feeling of wretchedness, desolation, hysteria and ingratitude within themselves.
The non-dog-owning public would soon appreciate a world free of the wretched curs and their faeces.
Beneath a lantern on the forecastle deck I saw a few wretched sailors hunched in apelike postures pounding oakum between the decking planks. STONE THE CROWS, IT'S A VACUUM-CLEANER
Eventually, the robbers left the bank with nothing more than their very queasy stomachs after having eaten a number of bowls of this wretched vanilla pudding.
It was a deluded parting shot from a captain whose lack of runs has been the single biggest reason for England's wretched performances. The Sun
The Waldenses (of whom the Albigenses are a species) were," he says, "never free from the most wretched excess of fascination;" and finally, though he allows the conduct of the judges to have been most odious, he cannot prevail on himself to acquit the parties charged by such interested accusers with horrors which should hardly have been found proved even upon the most distinct evidence. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
Even our reasons for needing the wretched things are tragically unalike. Times, Sunday Times
Her father is a great king but a wretched parent.
Yes; a wretched house you could call it: but the daily work was to be done, the cooking, cleaning, milking, poultry. TESTIMONIES
Have not the rich been guilty of ignoring the cry of the wretched and the poor in this little world we share?
But whereas the wretched Io had to pay dearly for the distinction, Europa was exceedingly fortunate.
Yet because living on a public sex - offender registry is so wretched, many abscond.
Slack seasons and wretchedness were unknown.
As he helped unpile logs to extract the wretched mans remains, Schultz remembered Excerpt: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
He has bred 300,000 of the four legged creatures and is hoping they will eat enough of the wretched insects to mark an improvement.
Clytemnestra's tomb a mingled cup of honey, milk, and frothing wine; then stand upon the heaped-up grave, and proclaim therefrom, "Helen, thy sister, sends thee these libations as her gift, fearing herself to approach thy tomb from terror of the Argive mob"; and bid her harbour kindly thoughts towards me and thee and my husband; towards these two wretched sufferers, too, whom Heaven hath afflicted. Orestes
He pictured himself now, crawling in the mud of a ditch, filthy and wretched, scampering in retreat.
Until her mother's arrival, Halen was thoroughly beaten down and wretched.
And begob what was it only that bloody old pantaloon Denis Breen in his bathslippers with two bloody big books tucked under his oxter and the wife hotfoot after him, unfortunate wretched woman, trotting like a poodle. Ulysses
The wretched soldiers were still guarding the cannon.
The most wretched of the stationary population of which I have been able to obtain any account, or that I have ever seen, was that which I saw in company with Dr Arnott, and others, in the wynds of Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Albert wore haircloth next to the skin, and clothed himself with coarse cloth and in wretched garments .... Three Cheers for Mrs Beamish
The party trudged on, fording swollen rivers and cursing the wretched weather. George Washington’s First War
In comfortable lives a bereavement is a contrast; in the lives of the wretched it is but one more in the assailing army of woes. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I
Similarly irksome is the fawning critical reception to this wretched doorstop of a book.
One contemporary version of Henry's complaint was: ‘I have nourished and promoted in my realm sluggish and wretched knaves who are faithless to their lord and suffer him to be tricked thus infamously by a low clerk.’
'are called upon to "Weave the warp, and weave the woof," perhaps with no great propriety; for it is by crossing the _woof_ with the _warp_ that men weave the _web_ or piece; and the first line was dearly bought by the admission of its wretched correspondent, "Give ample room and verge enough. Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776
Great armies of them are toiling now at the building of Ardis, housed in wretched barracks where family life cannot exist, and where decency is displaced by dull bestiality. Chapter 21: The Roaring Abysmal Beast
The streets were filled with a new and different race of people, short of stature, and of wretched or beer-sodden appearance. THE DESCENT
She plays an evil, wretched old battleaxe who fires people.
Ye make a fucken religion out of your wretched dripstone! Morgan’s Run
Their homes are wretched hovels, their surroundings are forbidding and their minds are sunken in a kind of pauperism out of which it seems impossible to arouse them. Country life in Georgia in the days of my youth,
Explain to me why you conceded the contest even as we entered this wretched place.
Now it seems to have taken a wretched, guiltless man's life with it.
Whips and rods used in a kind of monitorial system by themselves had a great part in the education of these young aristocrats, and, as pain surely must do, pain not of bodily disease or wretched accidents, but as it were by dignified rules of art, seem to have refined them, to have made them observant of the minutest direction in those musical exercises, wherein eye and ear and voice and foot all alike combined. Plato and Platonism
I can only hope that it may arouse interest, some sympathy and understanding for fellow human beings in wretched circumstances.
Like the refugees and renegades who slunk away in the salt marshes of the Adriatic and builded the palaces of powerful Venice on her deep-sunk piles, so these wretched hunted blacks builded power until they became masters of the mainland, controlling traffic and trade-routes, compelling the bushmen for ever after to remain in the bush and never to dare attempt the salt-water. CHAPTER X
As his success rate increased he added more barns to the one he used for the unbroken horses, and more recently another yard has been built at the side of that wretched gate post.
For existentialism defines the human condition as a perpetual beginning, an unfinished finality which, persisting in the depths of our wretchedness as in the heights of our glory, can never be superseded.
Was there any other way to mitigate the wretched circumstances of his life?
I was living on one meal for two days and I roamed the streets in search of wretched work.
But most of them live in places where housing conditions are wretched and public services inadequate.
Wretched man as I am, when shall I attaine to the height of liberality, and performe such wonders, as Nathan doth? The Decameron
Please excuse this wretched apology for a meal.
He was therefore obliged to content himself with a wretched cariole, and in this equipage, about four in the morning, he reached Froidmanteau, about four leagues from Paris. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
It was a deluded parting shot from a captain whose lack of runs has been the single biggest reason for England's wretched performances. The Sun

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