wretched
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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 Besant, Annie Wood
And made me mount upon the bare ridge, T' avoid a wretcheder miscarriage.
From Hudibras by Butler, Samuel
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
The wretcheder are the contemners of all helps; such as presuming on their own naturals, deride diligence, and mock at terms when they understand not things.
From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Johnson, Samuel
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 Harris, Richard
Vocabulary lists containing wretched
"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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