All 18 Uses of
wretched
in
Bleak House
- The very solicitors' boys who have kept the wretched suitors at bay, by protesting time out of mind that Mr. Chizzle, Mizzle, or otherwise was particularly engaged and had appointments until dinner, may have got an extra moral twist and shuffle into themselves out of Jarndyce and Jarndyce.†
Chpt 1-3
- I was glad when we came to the brickmaker's house, though it was one of a cluster of wretched hovels in a brick-field, with pigsties close to the broken windows and miserable little gardens before the doors growing nothing but stagnant pools.†
Chpt 7-9
- "He was wery good to me," says the boy, wiping his eyes with his wretched sleeve.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- What did they call the wretched being?†
Chpt 10-12
- A wretched evening is beginning to close in.†
Chpt 16-18
- The wretched boy is nothing to my Lady, and she does NOT wish to have him produced.†
Chpt 28-30
- The mother of the little child who had died was sitting in a chair on one side of the poor fire by the bed; and opposite to her, a wretched boy, supported by the chimney-piece, was cowering on the floor.†
Chpt 31-33
- For he still carried his wretched fragment of fur cap like a bundle, though he went bare-headed through the rain, which now fell fast.†
Chpt 31-33
- "Now, is it not a horrible reflection," said my guardian, to whom I had hastily explained the unavailing efforts of the two women, "is it not a horrible reflection," walking up and down and rumpling his hair, "that if this wretched creature were a convicted prisoner, his hospital would be wide open to him, and he would be as well taken care of as any sick boy in the kingdom?"†
Chpt 31-33
- But, guardian, may we not hope that a little experience will teach him what a false and wretched thing it is?†
Chpt 34-36
- I have a husband, wretched and dishonouring creature that I am!†
Chpt 34-36
- If you hear of Lady Dedlock, brilliant, prosperous, and flattered, think of your wretched mother, conscience-stricken, underneath that mask!†
Chpt 34-36
- I am glad I said he was an honourable man, out of all this wretched affair.†
Chpt 37-39
- I know from his lips that when that person soon afterwards died, he suspected Lady Dedlock of visiting his wretched lodging and his wretched grave, alone and in secret.†
Chpt 52-54
- I know from his lips that when that person soon afterwards died, he suspected Lady Dedlock of visiting his wretched lodging and his wretched grave, alone and in secret.†
Chpt 52-54
- On the waste where the brick-kilns are burning with a pale blue flare, where the strawroofs of the wretched huts in which the bricks are made are being scattered by the wind, where the clay and water are hard frozen and the mill in which the gaunt blind horse goes round all day looks like an instrument of human torture—traversing this deserted, blighted spot there is a lonely figure with the sad world to itself, pelted by the snow and driven by the wind, and cast out, it would seem,…†
Chpt 55-57
- Another person mixed up in that business and no other, a person in a wretched state, comes here to-night and is seen a-speaking to your maid-servant; and between her and your maid-servant there passes a paper that I would give a hundred pound for, down.†
Chpt 58-60
- And she was so faint, and lame, and miserable, Oh so wretched, that if you had seen her, Mr. Snagsby, you'd have given her half a crown, I know!"†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(wretched) very badin various senses, including:
- unfortunate or miserable -- as in "wretched prisoners sleeping on the cold floor"
- of poor quality -- as in "wretched roads"
- morally bad -- as in "The wretched woman stole his wallet."