wretch

This pathetic wretch longs to escape to Istanbul, where he can be around the worldly types he prefers.

At Rachel’s burial, Jackson angrily said, “I can and do forgive all my enemies. But those vile wretches who have slandered her must look to God for mercy.”

You know, the one where “The wretch, concentred all in self / Living, shall forfeit fair renown”?

In the play, King Henry laments the cardinal - his great uncle's - death, saying: 'O! beat away the busy, meddling fiend that lays siege unto this wretch's soul'.

She rejected what she described as the “Western perception that the African female is a downtrodden wretch.”