wretchedness in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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wretchedness [Brit ˈrɛtʃɪdnəs, Am ˈrɛtʃədnəs] N

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misère
misery, wretchedness
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He was separated from his wife, and lived in poverty and wretchedness.
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Excessive wealth in the hands of the few means extreme poverty, ignorance, vice, and wretchedness as the lot of the many.
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We fail to realize the inferiority and wretchedness to which we are born.
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It is their vitality, not their helpless wretchedness that gave labourers the strength to survive their ordeal.
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To add to my wretchedness, the inevitable baby was coming...
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New discoveries will make the waters of wretchedness recede from every corner of civilization.
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Some are animals who shriek with joy at the sight of the man who saved them from wretchedness in laboratories or as beach performers.
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There remained mendicants alone, from whom nothing could be exacted, and whom their misery and wretchedness secured from ill- treatment.
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Can you, then, consent to be the only sufferers by this revolution, and, retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness and contempt?
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Many of those that had attempted to escape were brought in several days afterwards in a state of great wretchedness.
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