All 13 Uses of
wretch
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- You are a feeble, nervous wretch, and a mass of whims, you're getting fat and lazy and can't deny yourself anything—and I call that dirty because it leads one straight into the dirt.†
Chpt 3.1
- If only I'd known what happened then at the police station and that some wretch...had insulted him with this suspicion!†
Chpt 3.2
- That is why you weighed their words...h'm... certainly, I agree, Porfiry's tone was rather strange, and still more that wretch Zametov!†
Chpt 3.6
- Probably "taking his cue" from Luzhin, "that contemptible wretch Lebeziatnikov had not turned up either.†
Chpt 5.2
- Katerina Ivanovna rose from her chair, and with a stern and apparently calm voice (though she was pale and her chest was heaving) observed that "if she dared for one moment to set her contemptible wretch of a father on a level with her papa, she, Katerina Ivanovna, would tear her cap off her head and trample it under foot."†
Chpt 5.2
- She hasn't been out of this room: she came straight from you, you wretch, and sat down beside me, everyone saw her.†
Chpt 5.3
- And can you love such a mean wretch?
Chpt 5.4 *wretch = a person of bad character
- But I am a coward and...a mean wretch.†
Chpt 5.4
- Let that wretch of a general see it!†
Chpt 5.5
- He is the father of the fatherless, he is merciful, he'll protect us, you'll see, and that wretch of a general....Lida, tenez vous droite!†
Chpt 5.5
- You see, honoured sir, these orphans of good family—I might even say of aristocratic connections—and that wretch of a general sat eating grouse...and stamped at my disturbing him.†
Chpt 5.5
- It's not your revolver, it belonged to Marfa Petrovna, whom you killed, wretch!†
Chpt 6.5
- I am a beggarly contemptible wretch, contemptible!†
Chpt 6.8
Definition:
someone you feel sorry for
or:
a person of bad character
or:
a person of bad character