How To Use Wretchedly In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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But in the attempt to incarnate and ensanguine it I failed wretchedly.
Seven Men
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He had made me wretchedly conscious of my shortcomings; that is how he had me on the hook.
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One of the arguments it Amuses me to use with people who believe that guns are both inherently evil and somehow self-willed is that there are far more guns in private hands in America now than at almost any time in the past, people seem to be less civil than ever, we find out more often than ever about how utterly wretchedly some politicians treat the citizenry, yet political assassination is less common now than ever it was.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Bad Old Days
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He had made me wretchedly conscious of my shortcomings; that is how he had me on the hook.
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The smell of cooking flesh mingles wretchedly with the reek of voided bowels and bladder.
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Robson had stationed Lee Bowyer on the right wing as cover for the teenager (Taylor), but given the wretchedly insipid nature of his performance, he need not have bothered.
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No struggle there, on the part of the children, "to share the good man's knee;" but protruded eyes, round as spectacles, and almost as large, fixed alternately upon his flushed face and that absorbing epigastrium which is making their miserable flesh-pot to wane most wretchedly.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841
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Primitive tribes are naked and wretchedly fed and housed, but they do not suffer from unemployment.
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`I can't remember who I am,' I said, wretchedly
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Barth said without thinking, looking wretchedly into the beautiful deadly face, hating her for smiling, and not being the empress.