noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
poor
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No, but the other poor wretch did, and the ferryman remembers when.
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Then as now, judges felt more at ease burning some poor wretch if they had a confession in hand.
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But who gets these poor wretches with child?
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The sermon he found surprisingly proper, but Adams was repelled to see poor wretches fingering their prayer beads.
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High in the air, he had had an unimpeded view of them, poor wretches , too terrified even to pray.
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A love letter probably, poor little wretch .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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That miserable little wretch would lie to anyone.
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What would happen to this poor wretch when we let her go?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Besides, Mr. Williams, who would waste themselves on such a miserable wretch ?
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He was a lonely, miserable wretch .
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I marvel who these wretches could be, moving in such numbers, and so heavily armed.
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Ten thousand wretches wanted to be Byron and ended as wretches, still wanting.
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The sermon he found surprisingly proper, but Adams was repelled to see poor wretches fingering their prayer beads.
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Then as now, judges felt more at ease burning some poor wretch if they had a confession in hand.
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Unhappy wretch that I am, I left my native fireside and alienated my home to seek strange truths in undiscovered lands.