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How to pronounce wretch
IPA transcription: ['ɹɛtʃ]
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Noun
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someone you feel sorry for
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performs some wicked deed
Usage examples
- However, the first name that Shelley uses in reference to the creature is "wretch".
- You know what a wretch I’ve said he was?
- Immanuel Kant called it a "wretched subterfuge" and "word jugglery".
- It made her wretched.
- For the following years he worked on freighter boats, returning home wretched and penniless.
- Did it matter, seeing he was so wretched?
- To What Miserable Wretches Have I Been Born?
- I do hate him — I am wretched — I have been a fool!
- They were former members of "The Wretched" and "The Burnt".
- The frenzy within his imagination explodes into rage and, finally, wretchedness.