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The story of the Statue of Liberty may seem tired, poor and the wretched refuse of unimaginative television.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Some of Mr. Spencer’s family stories—how his mother was kept from holding his elder brother, John, who died a few hours after birth—are wretched and empathetically told.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

In that case, you will likely find yourself traveling to or from the concourse on a wretched holdover of midcentury transportation design: the people mover.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

With three months to go in this wretched season, the MVP of the 2026 Angels is abundantly clear: Molly Jolly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

But Håkon looked so wretched and lost, and Anya decided that letting him find himself for a minute wouldn’t hurt.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

"The wretcheder are the contemners of all helps."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Let us hope not until social order has been transformed, lest they should only give more to those who have, and leave the wretched still wretcheder by force of contrast.

From Annie Besant An Autobiography by Annie Wood Besant

Especially wretched young men; and the wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets—a vicious circle!

From Peter Ibbetson by George Du Maurier

Ah the poor Lover!—In the changing Hands Of Day and Night no wretcheder than He!

From Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson by Edward FitzGerald

I felt all the wretcheder for the lack of a breakfast.

From The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Last week, on the 19th anniversary of that historic Dempsey-Carpentier battle, Jersey City was the scene of another heavyweight prize fight that will probably go down in history as the wretchedest of the post-Dempsey era.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the wretchedest slum quarter of Partinico. a pinched little town near Palermo, a man lay starving last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of all the ill-fated Boys ever created Young Jack was the wretchedest lad: An emphatic, erratic, Dogmatic fanatic Was foisted upon him as dad!

From Grimm Tales Made Gay by Albert Levering

And Chærephon, that wretchedest of men, Treated his house as though it were his own.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

And this the wretchedest of all, That when upon your lonely eyes The last faint heaviness shall fall, Ye shall bethink you of our cries.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Hamilton Wright Mabie