wretch

in a sentence

The little wretch would give me away.  (source) Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca, 1938

But just as Bilbo was beginning to hope that the wretch would not be able to answer, Gollum brought up memories of...  (source) J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, 1937

But he's a wretch, you alone don't know it!  (source) Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard, 1904

I remember being told of a poor wretch I once knew, who had died of hunger.  (source) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot, 1900

Why don't you cry again, you little wretch?  (source) Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1861

I know a poor wretch whose one desire in life is to run away from his wife.  (source) George Bernard Shaw, Man And Superman, 1903

Don't you stir a step, you little wretch!  (source) Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861

How many men had the snot-nosed little wretch sent through that door already?†  (source) George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones, 1996

Their generosity was more than I, poor wretch, deserved.†  (source) Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine, 1989

Suffice it to say that occasionally, even today, if some poor, raggedy, nicotine-stained wretch is seen shuffling through town, word will spread that this once was a bright, happy, normal child who had the misfortune of blundering onto Finsterwald's property.†  (source) Jerry Spinelli, Maniac Magee, 1990

Sometimes I sing to myself, in my head; something lugubrious, mournful, presbyterian: Amazing grace, bow sweet the sound Could save a wretch like me, Wbo once was lost, but now am found, Was bound, but now am free.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, 1985

"Good God, are you planning to slit me open, you little wretch?" she snapped at him.†  (source) Cornelia Funke, Inkheart, 2003

I will deal with this wretch.†  (source) Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire, 2011