All 14 Uses of
wretched
in
Inkheart
- I ran after them, right through the undergrowth, a couple of times I thought I'd break my neck going down that wretched slope, but I got to the gate just in time to see them driving off south.†
wretched = miserable or very bad
- No princes had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast-growing spurge.†
- I had to hold the wretched thing with both hands; I still remember how cold the hilt felt.†
- But who is this wretched wizard going to magic into thin air next time?†
- Meggie heard him cursing the thorns, the prickles, the darkness, and the wretched riffraff he was having to stumble after in the middle of the night.†
- Promise me you'll go to see him — he lives not far from here — and put the copy of the book still in that wretched village out of your mind once and for all.†
- When all you've done is read the wretched book.†
- We've been looking for the wretched village ever since.†
- What do I care for the wretched lawn?†
- It had lured him out of his old, wretched life, but it seemed that Dustfinger didn't like it anymore, he didn't know why — and Dustfinger had told him to keep watch on the prisoners.†
- The candle will soon go out, and the light Basta's left us is enough to see these wretched coffins but not to read letters.†
- She was the only one who could read their wretched Shadow out of the book for them; no one else could do it — except Mo, and they hadn't caught him yet.†
- Now that wretched fellow will haunt me in my dreams, and every time I hear something rustling out in my garden at night I will feel his knife at my throat.†
- Does this mean we have to go the whole wretched way on foot again?
*wretched = miserable
Definition:
very bad
in 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."