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- My room is a wretched, horrid one in the outskirts of the town.†
Chpt 1.1 *wretched = miserable or very bad
- My wretched passions were acute, smarting, from my continual, sickly irritability I had hysterical impulses, with tears and convulsions.†
Chpt 2.1
- Though these German beavers soon grow shabby and look wretched, yet at first they look exceedingly well, and I only needed it for the occasion.†
Chpt 2.1
- Of Simonov's two visitors, one was Ferfitchkin, a Russianised German—a little fellow with the face of a monkey, a blockhead who was always deriding everyone, a very bitter enemy of mine from our days in the lower forms—a vulgar, impudent, swaggering fellow, who affected a most sensitive feeling of personal honour, though, of course, he was a wretched little coward at heart.†
Chpt 2.3
- At last my wretched little clock hissed out five.†
Chpt 2.3
- I felt wretched; I was in haste to get away—to disappear.†
Chpt 2.7
- Oh, the vileness—oh, the silliness—oh, the stupidity of these 'wretched sentimental souls!'†
Chpt 2.8
- Of course, I couldn't keep it up then, because I am a wretched creature, I was frightened, and, the devil knows why, gave you my address in my folly.†
Chpt 2.9
- That I posed as such a hero to you, and now you would see me in a wretched torn dressing-gown, beggarly, loathsome.†
Chpt 2.9
- Surely by now you must realise that I shall never forgive you for having found me in this wretched dressing-gown, just as I was flying at Apollon like a spiteful cur.†
Chpt 2.9
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)