All 5 Uses
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Sweet Far Thing
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- A wretched monster in a tattered cape sniffs the air—a Winterlands tracker.†
Chpt 2 *wretched = miserable or very bad
- A Study in Scarlet has only a few bent pages but Jane Eyre has a wretched tear in it.†
Chpt 2
- I cannot spend another wretched week in their company.†
Chpt 2
- You are a wretched excuse for a friend.†
Chpt 3
- What a wretched existence.†
Chpt 3
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)