Both Uses
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And Then There Were None
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- To see a wretched criminal squirming in the dock, suffering the tortures of the damned, as his doom came slowly and slowly nearer, was to me an exquisite pleasure.†
p. 286.5wretched = miserable or very bad
- An indignant memsahib in Majorca recounted the tale of the Puritan Emily Brent and her wretched servant girl.†
p. 289.8 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(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."
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)