wretch in the PONS Dictionary

wretch Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

poor wretch
jadnik
poor wretch
nesrećnik
miserable wretch
bednik pej

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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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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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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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The wretches say whatever comes into their heads and whatever they think one wants to believe.
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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 yuan-ti employ these wretches as watchers over egg-broods and other demeaning tasks.
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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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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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The wretches are people crushed, looked down, excluded by the society, they are real miserables.
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Wretch provides free photo album, and blog hosting services.
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