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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
Wretch 32 took to the stage as a last-minute replacement for the gig.
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The yuan-ti employ these wretches as watchers over egg-broods and other demeaning tasks.
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The wretches are people crushed, looked down, excluded by the society, they are real miserables.
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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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The wretches say whatever comes into their heads and whatever they think one wants to believe.
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Wretch provides free photo album, and blog hosting services.
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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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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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It is usually supposed to have been clemency, the humane desire not to reduce a poor wretch to absolute beggary.
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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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