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Definition
someone you feel sorry for
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a person of bad character
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a person of bad character
- Ah, wretch, thy father and lady mother shall not close thine eyes in death, but birds that eat flesh raw shall tear thee, shrouding thee in the multitude of their wings.Book 11 (60% in)
- Ah, wretch, surely Achilles for all his valour, availed thee not, who straitly charged thee as thou camest, he abiding there, saying, 'Come not to me, Patroklos lord of steeds, to the hollow ships, till thou hast torn the gory doublet of man-slaying Hector about his breast;' so, surely, he spake to thee, and persuaded the wits of thee in thy witlessness."Book 16 (95% in)
There are no more uses of "wretch" in The Iliad by Homer (translated by: Lang, Leaf, & Myers).
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