All 12 Uses of
wretched
in
Emma
- If we feel for the wretched, enough to do all we can for them, the rest is empty sympathy, only distressing to ourselves.†
Chpt 1.9-10 *
- —It was a wretched business indeed!†
Chpt 1.15-16
- Still, however, affection was glad to catch at any reasonable excuse for not hurrying on the wretched moment.†
Chpt 2.1-2
- "I have made a most wretched discovery," said he, after a short pause.†
Chpt 2.7-8
- , set out in the little room; but that was scouted as a wretched suggestion.†
Chpt 2.11-12
- This wretched note was the finale of Emma's breakfast.†
Chpt 2.11-12
- —It was too wretched!†
Chpt 2.11-12
- No, if he had believed me at all to share his feelings, he would not have been so wretched.†
Chpt 2.13-14
- The idea of wanting gratitude and consideration for Miss Woodhouse, whom she really loved extremely, made her wretched for a while, and when the violence of grief was comforted away, still remained powerful enough to prompt to what was right and support her in it very tolerably.†
Chpt 2.13-14
- On this point we have been wretched.†
Chpt 3.9-10
- —she sat still, she walked about, she tried her own room, she tried the shrubbery—in every place, every posture, she perceived that she had acted most weakly; that she had been imposed on by others in a most mortifying degree; that she had been imposing on herself in a degree yet more mortifying; that she was wretched, and should probably find this day but the beginning of wretchedness.†
Chpt 3.11-12
- —He was very uneasy; and but for the sense of his son-in-law's protection, would have been under wretched alarm every night of his life.†
Chpt 3.19
Definition:
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(wretched) very badin various senses, including:
- unfortunate or miserable -- as in "wretched prisoners sleeping on the cold floor"
- of poor quality -- as in "wretched roads"
- morally bad -- as in "The wretched woman stole his wallet."