wretched
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The fist-pumping defiance from those who have performed so poorly, with Spurs finishing 17th for the second successive season, could have been avoided had they pitched up and performed earlier in this wretched campaign.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
His early season form for Kent has been wretched, with a top score of 44 in five matches.
From BBC ● May 11, 2026
Still, Ohm is more despairing and miserable than any of the wretched worms Scott has acted to date.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
They’re given to those buckling under the wretched weight of their surrounding world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
No one was even sure John could survive the wretched Highway 3 to reach Port-au-Prince.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Yes, so they have; though not many wretcheder things.
From The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy
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
"The wretcheder are the contemners of all helps."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
It was the second circle into which they now came—a sphere narrower than the first, and by so much more the wretcheder.
From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 by Dante Alighieri
I felt all the wretcheder for the lack of a breakfast.
From The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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
The sorriest jade of the wretchedest botta has a paper rose stuck behind his ear, though during the hours sacred to the carnival they are pariahs and outcasts from the Corso.
From Our Own Set A Novel by Ossip Schubin
"I'm the wretchedest wickedest girl alive," declared Agatha.
From Comedies of Courtship by Anthony Hope
Then you're indeed the wretchedest failure I know.
From The Tragic Muse by Henry James
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