All 16 Uses of
wretched
in
Oliver Twist
- With the slice of bread in his hand, and the little brown-cloth parish cap on his head, Oliver was then led away by Mr. Bumble from the wretched home where one kind word or look had never lighted the gloom of his infant years.†
Chpt 2
- Wretched as were the little companions in misery he was leaving behind, they were the only friends he had ever known; and a sense of his loneliness in the great wide world, sank into the child's heart for the first time.†
Chpt 2
- As the wretched creature mumbled and chuckled in her hideous merriment, the undertaker turned to go away.†
Chpt 5 *
- A dirtier or more wretched place he had never seen.†
Chpt 8
- One wretched breathless child, panting with exhaustion; terror in his looks; agony in his eyes; large drops of perspiration streaming down his face; strains every nerve to make head upon his pursuers; and as they follow on his track, and gain upon him every instant, they hail his decreasing strength with joy.†
Chpt 10
- Don't send me back to the wretched place I came from.†
Chpt 14
- Oliver often wandered here; and, thinking of the wretched grave in which his mother lay, would sometimes sit him down and sob unseen; but, when he raised his eyes to the deep sky overhead, he would cease to think of her as lying in the ground, and would weep for her, sadly, but without pain.†
Chpt 32
- The days were peaceful and serene; the nights brought with them neither fear nor care; no languishing in a wretched prison, or associating with wretched men; nothing but pleasant and happy thoughts.†
Chpt 32
- The days were peaceful and serene; the nights brought with them neither fear nor care; no languishing in a wretched prison, or associating with wretched men; nothing but pleasant and happy thoughts.†
Chpt 32
- 'I don't know what it is,' answered the girl; 'I only know that it is so, and not with me alone, but with hundreds of others as bad and wretched as myself.†
Chpt 40
- When such as I, who have no certain roof but the coffinlid, and no friend in sickness or death but the hospital nurse, set our rotten hearts on any man, and let him fill the place that has been a blank through all our wretched lives, who can hope to cure us?†
Chpt 40
- I know that of the wretched marriage, into which family pride, and the most sordid and narrowest of all ambition, forced your unhappy father when a mere boy, you were the sole and most unnatural issue.'†
Chpt 49
- I know how listlessly and wearily each of that wretched pair dragged on their heavy chain through a world that was poisoned to them both.†
Chpt 49
- There had been something so tremendous in the shrinking off of the three, that the wretched man was willing to propitiate even this lad.†
Chpt 50
- 'The child,' replied Monks, 'when her father died in a strange place, in a strange name, without a letter, book, or scrap of paper that yielded the faintest clue by which his friends or relatives could be traced—the child was taken by some wretched cottagers, who reared it as their own.'†
Chpt 51
- God forgive this wretched man!' cried the boy with a burst of tears.†
Chpt 52
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."