wretch

[US]/retʃ/
[UK]/rɛtʃ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a person who is pitiable or despicable.

Phrases & Collocations

poor wretch

miserable wretch

pitiful wretch

Example Sentences

a wretched idle layabout

the wretched conditions of the slums.

wretched treatment of the patients.

she disliked the wretched man intensely.

The little wretches were all bedraggledfrom some roguery.

Please excuse this wretched apology for a meal.

get out of here, you miserable wretches—scram!.

she wailed her wretched life.

can the poor wretch's corpse tell us anything?.

What a wretched existence these people lead in the slums!

a wretched childhood that scarred his psyche.

What a wretched life they lived in the workhouse!

He was wretched when he failed the examination.

I felt so wretched because I thought I might never see you again.

Threnody for Women Wretches——on humanistic concern in the book "Corn"

Hungry Joe was a jumpy, emaciated wretch with a fleshless face of dingy skin and bone.

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