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Definition

someone you feel sorry for

or:

a person of bad character

wretch = someone you feel sorry for

If you pay the blackmail, you will remain at the mercy of the unscrupulous wretch.
Mr. Merriweather, a faithful Methodist under duress, apparently saw nothing personal in singing, "Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me..."
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

wretch = a person of bad character

But it is true that I am a wretch. I have murdered the lovely and the helpless; I have...
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

wretch = bad person

And can you love such a mean wretch?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment

wretch = a person of bad character

But he's a wretch, you alone don't know it!
Anton Chekhov -- The Cherry Orchard

wretch = a person of bad character

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

wretch = someone you feel sorry for

wretch = a person of bad character

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

wretch = a person of bad character

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

wretch = someone you feel sorry for

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

wretch = a person of bad character and/or someone you feel sorry for

Why don't you cry again, you little wretch?
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations

wretch = a person of bad character

Amazing grace.
How sweet the sound.
That saves a wretch like me.
I once was lost.
And now I'm found.
Was blind but now I see.
John Newton
'What, Whittle,' he said, 'and can ye really be such a poor fond fool as to care for such a wretch as I!'
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
I was the most miserable wretch!
Jane Austen -- Emma
Her neighbors tell Ilda she's crazy, that it's not Javier but just a poor wretch who tripped on the roots of her gardenia tree and drowned.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the scritch-owl, scritching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud.
William Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night's Dream
—Come, thou mortal wretch, [To an asp, which she applies to her breast.
William Shakespeare -- Antony and Cleopatra
The people outside, maintaining their vigil, had begun to sing: Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound... That saved a wretch like me.
Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
"Yes, your Honour," stammered the poor wretch.
Baroness Orczy -- The Scarlet Pimpernel

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