All 9 Uses of
wretched
in
Arrowsmith
- And Max Gottlieb, glancing at the other guinea pig in the prison of its battery jar, meditated, "Wretched innocent!†
Chpt 4
- I am glad you haf enough intelligence to understand that, no matter how wretched I talk!†
Chpt 9 *
- Oh, Sandy, he looked so wretched.†
Chpt 11
- …the superiority of fresh air to warmth in schools, about the hygienic dangers of dirty streets about the real danger of alcohol, about the value of face-masks in influenza epidemics, about most of the things they tub-thumped in their campaigns, Pickerbaugh merely became angry, and Martin wanted to resign, and saw Irving Watters again, and returned to Pickerbaugh with new zeal, and was in general as agitated and wretched as a young revolutionist discovering the smugness of his leaders.†
Chpt 21
- He slammed into his own laboratory, felt freed, then wretched.†
Chpt 27
- They did take his working hours, they did scratch his belief that he was hard-hearted, but they implored him with such wretched timorousness that he could not get rid of them without making promises, and admitting afterward that to have been more cruel would have been less cruel.†
Chpt 30
- You want the luxury of harrowing yourself by thinking what a poor, bawling, wretched, story-book wife I am.†
Chpt 32
- For a long time he sat in his office and was thoroughly wretched.†
Chpt 39
- Joyce was silent through it all, and so superbly polite that everyone was wretched.†
Chpt 39
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."