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Translations for „wretch“ in the English » German Dictionary (Go to German » English)

wretch <pl -es> [retʃ] N

1. wretch (unfortunate person):

poor wretch
armer Kerl [o. Teufel] inf

2. wretch inf (mean person):

miserable wretch
Schweinehund m pej inf
miserable wretch
Mistkerl m inf
miserable wretch hum (child)
Schlingel m hum

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

poor wretch
armer Kerl [o. Teufel] inf
miserable wretch
Schweinehund m pej inf

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
Let my blood lie to that wicked man who has purchased it with gold, and them notorious wretches who swore it falsely away.
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In the novel, the monster is identified via words such as creature, monster, fiend, wretch, vile insect, daemon, being, and it.
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The wretches say whatever comes into their heads and whatever they think one wants to believe.
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The yuan-ti employ these wretches as watchers over egg-broods and other demeaning tasks.
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There are also references to the thing's blemished eye, and a screaming drunken wretch that they hanged for having such an eye.
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Wretch 32 took to the stage as a last-minute replacement for the gig.
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It is usually supposed to have been clemency, the humane desire not to reduce a poor wretch to absolute beggary.
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Gates' aide later complained that a timid wretch discovered it to the only man from whom he was to have kept it.
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The fickle goddess treated her passing lovers cruelly, and the unhappy wretches usually paid dearly for the favours heaped on them.
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A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
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