All 8 Uses
wretched
in
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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- It had given me a view of my wretched condition, without the remedy.†
Chpt 7wretched = miserable or very bad
- It was ever present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition.†
Chpt 7
- We were therefore reduced to the wretched necessity of living at the expense of our neighbors.†
Chpt 9
- At this result Mr. Covey seemed to be highly pleased, both with the man and the wretched woman.
Chpt 10 *wretched = person of bad character
- I sank down again, mourning over my wretched condition.†
Chpt 10wretched = miserable or very bad
- Those beautiful vessels, robed in purest white, so delightful to the eye of freemen, were to me so many shrouded ghosts, to terrify and torment me with thoughts of my wretched condition.†
Chpt 10
- Thus I used to think, and thus I used to speak to myself; goaded almost to madness at one moment, and at the next reconciling myself to my wretched lot.†
Chpt 10
- At times we were almost disposed to give up, and try to content ourselves with our wretched lot; at others, we were firm and unbending in our determination to go.†
Chpt 10
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)