All 14 Uses
wretched
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Sister Carrie
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- If it had not been for this, if she had not been able to measure and judge him a way, she would have been utterly wretched in her fear of not gaining his affection, of losing his interest, of being swept away and left without an anchorage.†
Chpt 10wretched = miserable or very bad
- She was constantly pained by the sight of the white-faced, ragged men who slopped desperately by her in a sort of wretched mental stupor.†
Chpt 15 *
- It looked as if she were certain to be a wretched failure.†
Chpt 19
- He was moody when he got back to the box, and could not talk for thinking of his wretched situation.†
Chpt 19
- He was thinking his own thoughts, and they were wretched.†
Chpt 19
- She did not seem to feel that he was wretched.†
Chpt 19
- He himself realized that it was a wretched thing to have dragged in.†
Chpt 21
- He was disturbed, wretched, resentful.†
Chpt 22
- Women are wretched.†
Chpt 23
- The rain, which threatened at twelve and began at one, served equally well to cause her to retrace her steps and remain within doors as it did to reduce Hurstwood's spirits and give him a wretched day.†
Chpt 26
- The more he thought, however, the more wretched his situation became.†
Chpt 29
- Everything he discovered in his line advertised as an opportunity, was either too expensive or too wretched for him.†
Chpt 34
- She came in and sat down at her place, feeling exceedingly wretched.†
Chpt 34
- He was beginning to find, in his wretched clothing and meager state of body, that people took him for a chronic type of bum and beggar.†
Chpt 47
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)