adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
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This really is the most wretched country you could imagine.
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The weekend was one of the most wretched she had ever known.
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It multiplied capital punishment for the most wretched categories of offenders.
so
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I felt so wretched , because I thought I might never see you again.
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I've been feeling so wretched these past two weeks because we've been apart.
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Even after the fire, Garvey had never looked so wretched .
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She had never felt so wretched and she vowed that if Maggie recovered she would make it up to her somehow.
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She had seldom felt so old or so tired or so wretched .
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When Captain Cook arrived, as he invariably did, they were so wretched they traded even their sacred carvings.
■ NOUN
man
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What was the wretched man doing on board, anyway?
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Why couldn't she put the image of that wretched man out of her mind?
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How was I to know she'd meet that wretched man ?
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To her annoyance, she was still thinking about the wretched man when lunchtime came and went.
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This wretched man knows quite well he is doing wrong in taking my eggs.
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I've known the wretched man for less than a week!
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The wretched man never answered her questions!
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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wretched poverty
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a lonely and wretched old man
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Billy lay on the bed, wretched and close to tears.
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the wretched state of American television
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With a violent drunkard for a husband, he thought, that wretched woman must lead a life of terror.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I don't want to have Nicky Scott Wilson fussing round me like a wretched nanny while you're away.
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It was a venue of pathos and prayers, a wretched place for passengers concerned with their welfare.
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The really wretched thing is, it can only get worse for me.
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There was nothing to do but put the wretched thing on.
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They were no longer the oppressed, wretched teen menials who must take orders, toe the line.
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Why couldn't she put the image of that wretched man out of her mind?