All 8 Uses of
wretch
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Terrible comedown, poor wretch!†
Chpt 6 *
- The hideous old wretch!†
Chpt 11
- —And the dirty scrawl of the wretch, says Joe.†
Chpt 12
- A fair unsullied soul had called to him and, wretch that he was, how had he answered?†
Chpt 13
- Drained all the manhood out of me, little wretch.†
Chpt 13
- But the word of Mr Costello was an unwelcome language for him for he nauseated the wretch that seemed to him a cropeared creature of a misshapen gibbosity, born out of wedlock and thrust like a crookback toothed and feet first into the world, which the dint of the surgeon's pliers in his skull lent indeed a colour to, so as to put him in thought of that missing link of creation's chain desiderated by the late ingenious Mr Darwin.†
Chpt 14
- Repugnant wretch!†
Chpt 15
- the museum one of them pretending to hide it with her hand are they so beautiful of course compared with what a man looks like with his two bags full and his other thing hanging down out of him or sticking up at you like a hatrack no wonder they hide it with a cabbageleaf that disgusting Cameron highlander behind the meat market or that other wretch with the red head behind the tree where the statue of the fish used to be when I was passing pretending he was pissing standing out for me to see it with his babyclothes up to one side the Queens own they were a nice lot its well the Surreys relieved them theyre always trying to show it to you every time nearly I passed outside the mens greenho†
Chpt 18
Definition:
someone you feel sorry for
or:
a person of bad character
or:
a person of bad character