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How to pronounce wretch

IPA transcription: ['ɹɛtʃ]

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Noun

  • someone you feel sorry for

  • 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.