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/ɹˈɛtʃɪdnəs/
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the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry
he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness -
a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable -
the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant
the wretchedness for which these prisons became known
the grey wretchedness of the rain
How To Use wretchedness In A Sentence
- The opening scene is an interview - about the wretchedness of conditions in the theatre, poking fun at the cumbersome bureaucracy which soils it.
- You had far better all die -- _die immediately_, than live slaves, and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity. Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life And Also Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the United States of America
- They try so hard to please their parents and even harder to understand them, and their resulting wretchedness is one of the most haunting subplots of the novel. Suburbs of Our Discontent
- He has to wait in the church for the other confessors to finish, which leaves him plenty of time to keep meditating on the wretchedness of his sins.
- Good, as goodness might be measured in their particular class, hard-working for meagre wages and scorning the sale of self for easier ways, nervously desirous for some small pinch of happiness in the desert of existence, and facing a future that was a gamble between the ugliness of unending toil and the black pit of more terrible wretchedness, the way whereto being briefer though better paid. Chapter 6
- I never write 'valetudinarian' at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; Mark Twain's Speeches
- Poor Admiral Boxer has fallen a victim to its remorseless gripe, and is buried at the head of the harbour, where he worked so hard, early and late, to endeavour to rescue Balaklava from the plague-stricken wretchedness in which he found it a few months before. Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol
- The wretchedness of her expression wrenched his heart, but he made no move toward her. The Unforgiven
- He would not creep about the country with moaning voice and melancholy eyes, with draggled dress and outward signs of wretchedness.
- In fact, they mattered more than her wretchedness, even more than my loved, lost and delinquent father who had put us in this situation.
