How to Use wretched in a Sentence

wretched

adjective
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  • I don't know what's wrong with her, but she looks wretched.
  • Who can forget the wretched Kool-Aid Man game for the Atari 2600?
    — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Luce himself was once one of Fanon’s so-called wretched of the Earth.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Odysseus would have died then, wretched man—not at all his fate!
    — Homer, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Now is the time to welcome a new wave of wretched whorebags.
    — Amanda Rosenberg, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Even in the wretched misery that was 2021, the Rangers didn’t suffer a four-game home sweep.
    — Dallas News, 17 July 2022
  • But the Wolverines are keenly aware of the wretched state of their in-state rival.
    — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 12 Nov. 2019
  • The macadam on Tenth Street comes out of the winter in wretched condition.
    — Arthur Hart, idahostatesman, 30 June 2018
  • And then we, the wretched media of United 837, were led into a lounge to wait.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 July 2021
  • And in some cases the wretched nature of the housing was also to blame.
    — Tracy Kidder, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • This is a sleazy, wretched racket, yet the film is nearly as blithe about it as Shawn is.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 July 2023
  • Consider how many wretched teams there have been in the last 30 years.
    — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • More than anyone, her luck in Olympic years was wretched.
    — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 13 July 2020
  • There is no end of this wretched war in sight, and there is an election looming.
    — Ayelet Waldman, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The wretched litany is a nearly Hobbesian nightmare: nasty and brutish, but not short.
    — Sigrid MacRae, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
  • That shouldn’t be ignored because of a wretched 10-21 record.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 23 Feb. 2021
  • None of the wretched outside world is allowed to seep inside.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2019
  • Meanwhile his wife was in Paris, alone, wretched, and very unwell.
    — Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Then a wretched three-minute stretch changed the complexion of Rubio’s night.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 23 Oct. 2021
  • The Chilean forward has suffered a wretched spell at Man Utd, and he's looked terribly off the pace for some time.
    — SI.com, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Greig hadn’t exactly set out to run a hospice for the wretched refuse of the canine universe.
    — Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 12 July 2022
  • Those wretched memories are an old soul’s cross to bear.
    — Sarah Hutto, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The only victories so far are those being claimed by the I-told-you-so crowd that thought this team would be wretched.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2021
  • That show is a wretched, tawdry mess that never should have made it onto HBO’s schedule.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 July 2023
  • The War of the Worlds began their wrath there, on the outskirts, where life was deemed so wretched as to earn even the extraterrestrials’ first strike.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 19 June 2020
  • Health workers worry about the spread of the virus through and among such wretched communities.
    — The Economist, 18 June 2020
  • Most of their five kids live nearby, in this part of Minnesota where the winters are wretched and the summers are a golden balm.
    — Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2019
  • If only a psychic could have warned us about these wretched Spider-Man spinoffs.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
  • But nothing endures with this team for long, aside from its ability to find wretched new ways to lose.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Nov. 2021
  • In 1966, the Riviera started its tragic journey down the path of wretched excess.
    — Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 8 Mar. 2023

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