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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

“Poor Gurgi can wait, long, long for his crunchings and munchings. Many years from now, when the great princes revel in their halls—what feastings—they will remember hungry, wretched Gurgi waiting for them.”

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

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

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

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

From The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy

No roads were wretcheder than theirs; nobody cared less than they.

From The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther

For three months this game has gone on—we getting shabbier, wretcheder, hungrier—no one bothers—all they say is "keep off the pavement."

From Five Little Plays by Alfred Sutro

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

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

Andrew Windybank had lived the wretchedest month of his life.

From Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea by Tom Bevan

Nay, Dickens himself sadly bewailed her fate, described himself as being the "wretchedest of the wretched" when it drew near, and shut himself from all society as if he had suffered a real bereavement.

From Life of Charles Dickens by Frank T. (Frank Thomas) Marzials

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