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someone you feel sorry foror:
a person of bad character
- Pity the poor wretch.
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
- But it is true that I am a wretch. I have murdered the lovely and the helpless; I have...Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- And can you love such a mean wretch?Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
- But he's a wretch, you alone don't know it!Anton Chekhov -- The Cherry Orchard
- I remember being told of a poor wretch I once knew, who had died of hunger.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
- The little wretch would give me away.Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca
- Don't you stir a step, you little wretch!Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- I know a poor wretch whose one desire in life is to run away from his wife.George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
- 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
- Why don't you cry again, you little wretch?Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
- 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
wretch = a person of bad character
wretch = bad person
wretch = a person of bad character
wretch = a person of bad character
wretch = someone you feel sorry for
wretch = a person of bad character
wretch = a person of bad character
wretch = someone you feel sorry for
wretch = a person of bad character and/or someone you feel sorry for
wretch = a person of bad character
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