wretchedness
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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
I think it will come famously—but I am the wretchedest of the wretched.
From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John
Fanny was passionate with the tea-cups and the bread as long as her passion lasted, and then protested that she was the wretchedest girl in the world, and she wished she was dead.
From Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles
Yes, Code, we’ve got him where he is probably the wretchedest man in the world.
From The Harbor of Doubt by Gage, George W.
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