All 10 Uses of
wretched
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- For the last five years she's been wretched.†
Chpt 3 *
- You can't think how wretched I was yesterday and this morning, wondering how I could write them that dreadful letter—for one can never tell such things in a letter….†
Chpt 4
- " "On the third day when he came back from school, I saw he looked pale and wretched.†
Chpt 4
- Though the day was just as fine as yesterday, it seemed a wretched little place this time.†
Chpt 5
- I knew one "champion of freedom" who told me himself that, when he was deprived of tobacco in prison, he was so wretched at the privation that he almost went and betrayed his cause for the sake of getting tobacco again!†
Chpt 6
- That's just what's made me wretched all my life, that I yearned to be honorable, that I was, so to say, a martyr to a sense of honor, seeking for it with a lantern, with the lantern of Diogenes, and yet all my life I've been doing filthy things like all of us, gentlemen …. that is like me alone.†
Chpt 9
- It was a wretched morning, the whole sky was overcast, and the rain streamed down in bucketfuls.†
Chpt 9
- 'Wretched doggerel,' he said they were, 'some divinity student must have written them,' and with such vehemence, such vehemence!†
Chpt 11
- If he behaved wildly, drank, and made disturbances in the taverns in the course of that month, it was perhaps because he was wretched and strained beyond his powers of endurance.†
Chpt 12
- Katya cried suddenly, with feeling she could not repress, "if you knew how he loved that wretched man at the moment he told me, and how he hated him, perhaps, at the same moment.†
Chpt Epil.
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."