WRETCHED


Meaning of WRETCHED in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

most

This really is the most wretched country you could imagine.

The weekend was one of the most wretched she had ever known.

It multiplied capital punishment for the most wretched categories of offenders.

so

I felt so wretched , because I thought I might never see you again.

I've been feeling so wretched these past two weeks because we've been apart.

Even after the fire, Garvey had never looked so wretched .

She had never felt so wretched and she vowed that if Maggie recovered she would make it up to her somehow.

She had seldom felt so old or so tired or so wretched .

When Captain Cook arrived, as he invariably did, they were so wretched they traded even their sacred carvings.

■ NOUN

man

What was the wretched man doing on board, anyway?

Why couldn't she put the image of that wretched man out of her mind?

How was I to know she'd meet that wretched man ?

To her annoyance, she was still thinking about the wretched man when lunchtime came and went.

This wretched man knows quite well he is doing wrong in taking my eggs.

I've known the wretched man for less than a week!

The wretched man never answered her questions!

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

wretched poverty

a lonely and wretched old man

Billy lay on the bed, wretched and close to tears.

the wretched state of American television

With a violent drunkard for a husband, he thought, that wretched woman must lead a life of terror.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

I don't want to have Nicky Scott Wilson fussing round me like a wretched nanny while you're away.

It was a venue of pathos and prayers, a wretched place for passengers concerned with their welfare.

The really wretched thing is, it can only get worse for me.

There was nothing to do but put the wretched thing on.

They were no longer the oppressed, wretched teen menials who must take orders, toe the line.

Why couldn't she put the image of that wretched man out of her mind?

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