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Murray, who went on to earn the starting role with the Minnesota Vikings, made a wretched start at home to the Green Bay Packers, coached by LaFleur's older brother Matt.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

In medieval Europe, leprosy was seen as a kind of transfigurative suffering: Those with the condition were believed to be so wretched in this life that they were virtually guaranteed respite in the hereafter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Angelenos, take heart: After a wretched stretch of heat and humidity, temperatures for the coming week are forecast at or below normal for this time of year, according to the National Weather Service.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

As if being back here on this wretched road—the place he’d un-died—weren’t bad enough, ahead of them, Fernlight Forest stretched upward and outward, rich and leafy and gold-dappled green.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

I don't believe there was a wretcheder soul in that big city of wretchedness than me.

From The Story of a Bad Boy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

Yes, so they have; though not many wretcheder things. 

From The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy

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

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

There’s nowt more wretcheder an we,    Or worthier an the rich, I praises ’em for bein’ born,    An’ ’eaven for makin’ sich.

From The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit by Richard Harris

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

How couldst thou imagine, wretchedest of beings, that that tender creature Seraphina would fling her pretty arms about that neck which previous circumstances had rendered infamous?

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb

The door-fittings were all broken from the outer door, but a wrecked door was now bound thereby, and all was fitted up in the wretchedest wise.

From The Story of Grettir the Strong by William Morris

He saw to-day only the wretchedest and ugliest sights.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter