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  • These wretched Jews, they're rotten luck.†   (source)
  • None of them got such a wretched job as hers.†   (source)
  • "There is no act more wretched than stealing, Amir," Baba said.†   (source)
  • "You didn't ask them to fly that wretched car—" But Harry, who felt wide awake, said quickly, "I'll help Ron.†   (source)
  • Rows of wretched souls sat hunched on wooden benches.†   (source)
  • A and E, your aim was wretched.†   (source)
  • As he helped unpile logs to extract the wretched man's remains, Schultz remembered a pretty parcel of land he'd spied north and west of Mellen.†   (source)
  • I woke up the next morning feeling wretched— not just tired, but terrified.†   (source)
  • "No, you can get that idea out of your heads," the doctor said, leaning forward to add in a whisper, "Those wretched criminals want to bring me to my knees.†   (source)
  • He's a wealthy young man, despite it all, and that wretched Alicia running off with his friend had made him feel about as worthless as anyone in his position could feel.†   (source)
  • Another long, hot, boring, wretched August day.†   (source)
  • Wretched mortals, open your eyes!†   (source)
  • Every ounce of the noble courage he'd felt, the will to make a difference, the promise to himself to reunite Chuck with his family—it all vanished into an exhausted fog of hopeless, wretched weariness.†   (source)
  • Werner tries to float images in front of his eyes, but the only ones that come are wretched: the hauling machine above Pit Nine; the hunched miners walking as if they dragged the weight of enormous chains.†   (source)
  • The wretched insects sucked life from him faster than he could replenish it.†   (source)
  • She didn't glance at him, because besides loathing him and finding his face weak and his eyes shifty, besides being sure she'd never need to see that wretched face again, she had work to do.†   (source)
  • And there was the ball that Owen Meany hit; and there was my wretched father, asking me to forgive him.†   (source)
  • It's a wretched feeling.†   (source)
  • She cocked her head, now keenly aware of her wretched dirtiness.†   (source)
  • I was wretched looking, damp from rain and dust-covered and squatting in a mound of debris.†   (source)
  • I was about to settle down to a warm fire and a roast fowl, and that wretched singer had to open his mouth, he thought mournfully.†   (source)
  • They have killed her father in those wretched mines.†   (source)
  • The Silvers don't bat an eye at any of it, complaining about the "wretched conditions."†   (source)
  • The next few minutes were wretched ones indeed.†   (source)
  • Or if they had a job, the children in daycare or left with some brutal ignorant woman, and they'd have to pay for that themselves, out of their wretched little paychecks.†   (source)
  • Not only will you stay away from the forest, you will be locked within the stateroom until we leave this wretched island.†   (source)
  • These unprovable suspicions, Jackson's detainment in the laundry, Pierrot's wretched delivery and the morning's colossal heat were oppressive to Briony.†   (source)
  • Get off my wife, you wretched Papist twit.†   (source)
  • "Don't play with me, you wretched girl—" Captain Sham started to say, but Violet hung up the phone, her heart pounding, and turned to Aunt Josephine.†   (source)
  • We've watched Macbeth change from a noble, trusted, dedicated soldier, willing to sacrifice his life for king and country, to a wretched, depraved, corrupt murderer who no longer has feelings of guilt or morality.†   (source)
  • I'm an evil, worthless, wretched girl.†   (source)
  • She hatched several wretched little plans.†   (source)
  • Wretched, isn't it?†   (source)
  • Darling, could you close those wretched curtains.†   (source)
  • I simply refuse to do that wretched math every day.†   (source)
  • Prophecies of revenge, spoken in a wretched language only he knew, rolled from his tongue.†   (source)
  • They couldn't possibly know how he felt-the pain, the sudden wretched loneliness.†   (source)
  • Bite and break you, if you gave me half an hour I would do such things that these wretched gawping peasants would go mad with fear.†   (source)
  • Although they were such a wretched sight beside their conquerors, you felt it was not they who were defeated.†   (source)
  • We still have fifteen minutes of that wretched movie left to endure in Biology — I don't think I could take any more.†   (source)
  • NOWADAYS WE THINK of A Christmas Carol as a private morality play and a nice Christmas tale to boot, but in 1843 Dickens was actually attacking a widely held political belief, hiding his criticism in the story of a wretched miser who is saved by spiritual visitations.†   (source)
  • I'm here in one of the most beautiful and inspiring places in the world, and he's in one of the most wretched.†   (source)
  • It was this wretched room then—it was always dark in this little cupboard of a kitchen.†   (source)
  • Prepare to die, wretched woman!†   (source)
  • I will kill you presently, as soon as I deal with this wretched girl.†   (source)
  • Your wretched irony again!†   (source)
  • He did not have to be loved, but he would not be ignored; and once he even dew at her, shouting that he would slap her, and I found myself in the wretched position of fighting him as I'd done years before she'd come to us.†   (source)
  • He hangs his head, wretched.†   (source)
  • The thought of losing her made me feel utterly wretched.†   (source)
  • He leads them around to the fetid rump of the Buy 'n' Fly, dark realm of wretched refuse in teeming dumpsters.†   (source)
  • It was a wretched place.†   (source)
  • Everything looked wretched and desolate, but out of the sordid taverns came the thunder of riotous music, the godless drunken celebration of Pentecost by the poor.†   (source)
  • Life at the cabin had probably been pleasant in the summer, but when the temperature dropped to freezing it must have been raw and wretched.†   (source)
  • I bent over, wretched and vomited.†   (source)
  • He helped May Belle wrap her wretched little gifts and even sang "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" with her and Joyce Ann.†   (source)
  • And Josie ...I didn't have words for how wretched that girl was.†   (source)
  • Blinking again, he found the most wretched creature of all.†   (source)
  • I could see the apology written there, the wretched guilt, and was surprised to find my heart could break even that bit more.†   (source)
  • But when this wretched business is over, we shan't have to be enemies any more and we'll have a drink together.'†   (source)
  • My feelings of tenderness and pity were undermined by the sight of them crossing the sidewalk in their bundled clothing, the child determinedly weeping, his mother drooping as she walked, wild-haired, a wretched and pathetic pair.†   (source)
  • But when she saw the horse she'd probably want to sue him for letting the wretched thing live.†   (source)
  • It towered over the town, more like an affliction than a blessing, and made everything seem, by comparison with itself, wretched and makeshift indeed.†   (source)
  • * The UN is so wretched at public relations that it can't even match its abbreviations with its organizations.†   (source)
  • And now we hear that you're no longer leader of the Dark Daughters and have been ejected from High Priestess training, which makes you no different than any of the other riffraff at this wretched school?'†   (source)
  • I opened it out of curiosity and found I had sailed into a world more damp and wretched than my own, and strangely, I was happy to be there.†   (source)
  • A wretched stench floated in the air.†   (source)
  • I am the most wretched of creatures.†   (source)
  • Amatis's tone was dry, and if Clary hadn't felt so wretched, she might have been amused to note that it made her sound much more like Luke.†   (source)
  • At a little past nine, she left poor Mavity at the door of that wretched place the poor woman called her room, looked quietly in to see that her mother seemed to sleep, got her hat and hurried out, goaded by a seemingly disproportionate fever of impatience and anxiety.†   (source)
  • I could have sworn that just a few seconds ago I was twenty-three, and now here I am in this wretched, desiccated body.†   (source)
  • Accommodations on the crowded transports and other ships were wretched.†   (source)
  • Opposite the hotel was a barren little park, as wretched as only the park of a dirty little town can be, but for Tereza it had always been an island of beauty: it had grass, four poplars, benches, a weeping willow, and a few forsythia bushes.†   (source)
  • So many of those souls were lost and wretched, Billy believed, because they could not see as well as Ws little green friends on Tralfamadore.†   (source)
  • "Wretched shape—" he said.†   (source)
  • A wretched feeling of being torn engulfed me.†   (source)
  • The wretched conditions they lived in made the circumstances of his own childhood seem idyllic.†   (source)
  • All my birds leaving and my wastrel son and his wretched wife descending upon me.†   (source)
  • As wretched as the days were because of the cold and the fear and the sickness, the night was terror.†   (source)
  • You could have given me a heart attack tricking me into standing face to face with that hideous, wretched thing!†   (source)
  • The wretched old lady had tricked me, I knew.†   (source)
  • My mother made me a little shepherdess outfit, and I looked so sweet it would make you sick, and the wretched creature used to take every opportunity to butt me in the—to butt me.†   (source)
  • I'd enjoy her comeuppance a bit more if I weren't feeling so completely wretched.†   (source)
  • The wretched fact that we were separated and it was all my fault was impossible to deny, but when I found the right Hallmark greeting in the free collection handed out via the chapel, I felt a tiny bit better.†   (source)
  • The house, like most of Lucien's assets and burdens, was a hand-me-down from ancestors he deemed wretched, but who, with hindsight, had done an admirable job of securing for him a comfortable life.†   (source)
  • Nothing serious but I felt wretched enough.†   (source)
  • But pity stayed him, and though he kept the ring, in which his only hope lay, he would not use it to help him kill the wretched creature at a disadvantage.†   (source)
  • "You wretched little black beetle," he said.†   (source)
  • Nay, Mistress, I know the signs of this wretched illness.†   (source)
  • Wretched.†   (source)
  • He stood on the sandy bottom and wretched a quart of water from his lungs in front of a startled Michal.†   (source)
  • A wretched part of me wants to do it stealthily.†   (source)
  • "Come out again, you wretched woman," said the goddess, "and we will go collect her together."†   (source)
  • The consequence of all that ice was a wretched Thanksgiving of tiny tough birds, heavy pork cakes, and pithy sweet potatoes.†   (source)
  • But as the Court ponders this wretched irony and injustice, let it consider another question of equal if not greater injustice.†   (source)
  • The wretched female inhabitants were rushing out almost naked, imploring spectators to help them on with their burdens of bed quilts, cane-bottomed chairs, iron kettles, etc. Drays were thundering along in the single procession which the narrowness of the street allowed, and all was confusion.†   (source)
  • His job was to make our lives as wretched as possible, and he pursued that goal with great enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • Oh, no you don't, you wretched little blister," he spit at me.†   (source)
  • e>tf<")(*>t>o "Every reason which calls for the exclusion of the most wretched, ignorant, dirty, diseased and degraded people of Europe or Asia demands that the illiterate, unclean, peonized masses moving this way from Mexico be stopped at the border...." crackled a speech by a Texas congressman.†   (source)
  • Such results could be had from a variety of products, including a stomach-turning mix of Epsom salts and water—chased by two fingers of rye to stop the gagging reflex—a plant-derived purgative called jalap, or bottles of a wretched-tasting formula known as Pluto Water.†   (source)
  • Give us your poor, your wretched; we welcome them.†   (source)
  • She wants no part of Cuba, no part of its wretched carnival floats creaking with lies, no part of Cuba at all, which Lourdes claims never possessed her.†   (source)
  • You knew it before you began the whole wretched business.†   (source)
  • I was only a woman, but even I knew that these exams provided a stepping-stone for even the poorest scholars from the most wretched circumstances to a higher life.†   (source)
  • She had nothing that could replace the wretched shoes.†   (source)
  • GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR,
    YOUR HUDDLED MASSES YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE,
    THE WRETCHED REFUSE OF YOUR TEEMING SHORE.†   (source)
  • Pray, you wretched boy for a forgiveness you do not deserve, but which God, in His mercy, may yet grant you.†   (source)
  • Though the gods alone know why, ever did Morkai have a soft spot for his wretched little apprentice!†   (source)
  • The Person I'm Supposed to Be ANDY BLOWERS THERE'S A WRETCHED PLACE DEPRESSION DRAGS ME off to after taking control of my thoughts and feelings.†   (source)
  • A moment later her face contorts in the most wretched expression and her hand goes to her mouth, and I look away because just seeing it feels like an invasion.†   (source)
  • He said, according to legend, "Bruce, hiding from enemies in a wretched hut, watched a spider swinging by one of its threads.†   (source)
  • The men are in wretched physical condition after months in the trenches.†   (source)
  • The operation was to remove the gall bladder of some wretched peasant from el-Minoufiya and after this had been done, Dr. Mansour asked Hisham to sew up the wound.†   (source)
  • Think of the wretched of the city living in squalor.†   (source)
  • Her sobbing had let up a bit, or seemed to have, but her body was in the same wretched, prostrate, face-down position.†   (source)
  • Mostly it's single parents or teens who have bought an orange drink or cinnamon bun at the food court, strutting about for nothing better to do, or the people my age and beyond, who gather beneath the central glass dome of the mall, sitting on the benches set beneath the artificial palms, which replaced the real ones that looked wretched from Grand Opening day and finally died last year.†   (source)
  • She had not come to Syria on a suicide mission and had no intention of dying in this wretched place, at the hands of these blackclad prophets of the apocalypse.†   (source)
  • He supposed there were one or two things he ought to take out, his wretched pieces of paper—insurance card, driving license and his E.93 (whatever that was) in a buff OHMS envelope—but suddenly he couldn't be bothered.†   (source)
  • unless it be a pseudo-Italianate variant on triste ( = wretched, depraved).†   (source)
  • Wretched with disappointment I leaned against a tree and ate the ice cream.†   (source)
  • Mary in her anguish on Calvary could not have made a more wretched noise.†   (source)
  • He is wretched in a starched collar and Sunday suit.†   (source)
  • That was no doubt why the region had provided so many slaves in the old days: slave peoples are physically wretched, half-men in everything except in their capacity to breed the next generation.†   (source)
  • How could you have learned meditation, holding your breath, insensitivity against hunger and pain there among these wretched people?†   (source)
  • There were more people in the world than there have ever been since, all crammed into the passages of the Coliseum, and all wretched.†   (source)
  • Make these miserable, wretched dogs proud and healthy.†   (source)
  • Why go on at me just because some wretched perissodactyle happens to pass by.†   (source)
  • She swore that we were hiding and protecting some wretched creature, that we were all in league.†   (source)
  • Why, O why did I ever bring a wretched little hobbit on a treasure hunt!   (source)
  • Here, then; the wretched man whose name he had now to learn, lay underneath the ground.   (source)
    wretched = unfortunate
  • Miserable himself that he may render no other wretched, he ought to die.   (source)
    wretched = miserable
  • These events have affected me, God knows how deeply; but I am not so wretched as you are.   (source)
  • You have made me wretched beyond expression.   (source)
  • Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was.   (source)
  • Thus I might proclaim myself a madman, but not revoke the sentence passed upon my wretched victim.   (source)
  • All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!   (source)
  • During the whole of this wretched mockery of justice I suffered living torture.   (source)
  • From the foldings of its robe, it brought two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable.   (source)
    wretched = unfortunate or miserable
  • The ways were foul and narrow; the shops and houses wretched; the people half-naked, drunken, slipshod, ugly.   (source)
    wretched = of poor quality
  • Topper had clearly got his eye upon one of Scrooge's niece's sisters, for he answered that a bachelor was a wretched outcast, who had no right to express an opinion on the subject.   (source)
    wretched = morally bad
  • He had been quite familiar with one old ghost, in a white waistcoat, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle, who cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, whom it saw below, upon a door-step.   (source)
    wretched = unfortunate or miserable
  • The picture appeared a vast and dim scene of evil, and I foresaw obscurely that I was destined to become the most wretched of human beings.   (source)
    wretched = miserable
  • Hear him not; call on the names of William, Justine, Clerval, Elizabeth, my father, and of the wretched Victor, and thrust your sword into his heart.   (source)
  • If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.   (source)
  • "She most of all," said Ernest, "requires consolation; she accused herself of having caused the death of my brother, and that made her very wretched."   (source)
  • With new courage, therefore, I pressed on, and in two days arrived at a wretched hamlet on the seashore.   (source)
  • "What a place is this that you inhabit, my son!" said he, looking mournfully at the barred windows and wretched appearance of the room.   (source)
    wretched = bad
  • I relied on your innocence, and although I was then very wretched, I was not so miserable as I am now.   (source)
    wretched = miserable
  • Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you.   (source)
  • He had caused the best room in the prison to be prepared for me (wretched indeed was the best); and it was he who had provided a physician and a nurse.   (source)
    wretched = bad
  • How kind and generous you are! every one else believes in her guilt, and that made me wretched, for I knew that it was impossible: and to see every one else prejudiced in so deadly a manner rendered me hopeless and despairing.   (source)
    wretched = miserable
  • The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped to the open country and fearfully took refuge in a low hovel, quite bare, and making a wretched appearance after the palaces I had beheld in the village.   (source)
    wretched = bad
  • He had come forth from the hands of God a perfect creature, happy and prosperous, guarded by the especial care of his Creator; he was allowed to converse with and acquire knowledge from beings of a superior nature, but I was wretched, helpless, and alone.   (source)
    wretched = miserable
  • I learned from Werter's imaginations despondency and gloom, but Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to admire and love the heroes of past ages.   (source)
  • But I was doomed to live and in two months found myself as awaking from a dream, in a prison, stretched on a wretched bed, surrounded by jailers, turnkeys, bolts, and all the miserable apparatus of a dungeon.   (source)
  • I afterwards learned that, knowing my father's advanced age and unfitness for so long a journey, and how wretched my sickness would make Elizabeth, he spared them this grief by concealing the extent of my disorder.   (source)
  • I was surprised I could keep my voice even, I felt so wretched inside.†   (source)
  • She had more time to herself and more time to worry, more time to plan a wretched new life.†   (source)
  • Let me tell you something-A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing, Mariam.†   (source)
  • A wretched squeal escaped his throat as he fell to the floor, writhing in a web of pure electricity.†   (source)
  • These were the wretched souls who would be thrown into the arena with Cyclops tomorrow.†   (source)
  • There's only me looking into the wretched eyes of the man from the Nut who asks for one reason.†   (source)
  • I must apologize for Blagden's wretched verses," said Islanzadi.†   (source)
  • And he lumbered out of the pub looking wretched, and disappeared into the torrential rain.†   (source)
  • "Silence that wretched little Hund," the Nazi thundered.†   (source)
  • You wretched beast of high ceilings and few horsepower!†   (source)
  • "Filch, I don't give a damn about that wretched poltergeist; it's my office that's —" Clunk.†   (source)
  • I have the hardest time trying to maintain a normal facade when I'm feeling so wretched and sad.†   (source)
  • Oh, perhaps it was a wretched plan after all, and would just create more suffering.†   (source)
  • "It's a very effective way of being wretched," said Marvin.†   (source)
  • Her wretched dog nipped at my shoe under the table.†   (source)
  • Wretched Betty dropped Uncle Clem's vase carrying it down and it shattered on the steps.†   (source)
  • The wretched singer had come along with them.†   (source)
  • The Capitol viewers will be glued to their sets so they don't miss one wretched word.†   (source)
  • When the doors to the palace open to us, a wretched scream twists through the long marbled passages.†   (source)
  • Had the wretched fellow come just to gloat, or did he suspect something?†   (source)
  • He looked wretched and shabby, with stubble on his face.†   (source)
  • That wretched woman beat Ruth, I just knew it.†   (source)
  • Maybe I would set it on fire the next time I was having a particularly wretched day.†   (source)
  • All I could think of was my wretched birthday party last September.†   (source)
  • The words catch, and I feel wretched for doubting him.†   (source)
  • Danny Torrance screamed in wretched terror.†   (source)
  • But if he leaves, what will become of the wretched woman?†   (source)
  • I had to hold the wretched thing with both hands; I still remember how cold the hilt felt.†   (source)
  • Quite wretched, I should say, and sick with longing for their lost child.†   (source)
  • It smelled dirtier every day, a wretched mélange of fish and mud and chemicals.†   (source)
  • In spite of his exceptional camera, Greger was a wretched photographer.†   (source)
  • She found herself in a wretched little low kitchen, lighted by a smoky lamp.†   (source)
  • As much as Thomas dreaded spending another night in this wretched city, he agreed.†   (source)
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