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wretch <-es> [retʃ] N

1. wretch (unfortunate person):

a poor wretch

бедня́га mf

a poor wretch

горемы́ка mf

2. wretch inf (mean person):

a miserable wretch

подле́ц m

a miserable wretch

негодя́й m

Usage examples with wretch

a miserable wretch

подле́ц m

a poor wretch

бедня́га mf

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. en.wikipedia.org

In the novel, the monster is identified via words such as creature, monster, fiend, wretch, vile insect, daemon, being, and it. en.wikipedia.org

The wretches say whatever comes into their heads and whatever they think one wants to believe. en.wikipedia.org

Wretch 32 took to the stage as a last-minute replacement for the gig. en.wikipedia.org

The wretches are people crushed, looked down, excluded by the society, they are real miserables. en.wikipedia.org

The yuan-ti employ these wretches as watchers over egg-broods and other demeaning tasks. en.wikipedia.org

There are also references to the thing's blemished eye, and a screaming drunken wretch that they hanged for having such an eye. en.wikipedia.org

Gates' aide later complained that a timid wretch discovered it to the only man from whom he was to have kept it. en.wikipedia.org

It is usually supposed to have been clemency, the humane desire not to reduce a poor wretch to absolute beggary. en.wikipedia.org

The fickle goddess treated her passing lovers cruelly, and the unhappy wretches usually paid dearly for the favours heaped on them. en.wikipedia.org

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