All 9 Uses of
wretched
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- I took for earnest what you insist was jest, and now this that I pray to be jest you say is awful, wretched earnest.†
Chpt 31-33 *
- Wretched woman—deluded woman—you are, Bathsheba!†
Chpt 34-36
- Here, under the table, and leaning against forms and chairs in every conceivable attitude except the perpendicular, were the wretched persons of all the work-folk, the hair of their heads at such low levels being suggestive of mops and brooms.†
Chpt 34-36
- "Yes, if it hadn't been for that wretched rain I should have cleared two hundred as easy as looking, my love," he was saying.†
Chpt 37-39
- Three booths were blown over, and the wretched folk inside crawled out upon their hands and knees; and in the next field were as many as a dozen hats at one time.†
Chpt 37-39
- Here's—wretched—the merest trifle.†
Chpt 37-39
- "I don't know what's the matter, I feel wretched at one time, and buoyant at another.†
Chpt 52-54
- This was the entrance to the gaol, and over it a lamp was fixed, the light enabling the wretched traveller to find a bell-pull.†
Chpt 52-54
- Liddy kept watch in Bathsheba's chamber, where she heard her mistress, moaning in whispers through the dull slow hours of that wretched night: "Oh it is my fault—how can I live!†
Chpt 52-54
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."