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wretchedness

/rech-id/US // ˈrɛtʃ ɪd //UK // (ˈrɛtʃɪd) //

凄惨,悲哀,苦难,惨淡经营

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    wretch·ed·er, wretch·ed·est.

    • : very unfortunate in condition or circumstances; miserable; pitiable.
    • : characterized by or attended with misery and sorrow.
    • : despicable, contemptible, or mean: a wretched miser.
    • : poor, sorry, or pitiful; worthless: a wretched job of sewing.

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Examples

  • Together, the players almost succeeded — showing just enough fight to say Washington can’t give up hope in the wretched NFC East.

  • Nine months on, could the desire to put an end to the wretchedness of war plot a path out of Syria's four-year conflict?

  • The wretchedness of the life in Susiya, as in other Palestinians villages in the south Hebron Hills, is a human rights calamity.

  • In the subsequent chapters the narrator is pulled, inexorably, to new depths of disillusionment and wretchedness.

  • The working classes of Thatcherite Britain were in dire need of a spokesperson to celebrate their wretchedness.

  • As they got lower and lower down the hill, her wretchedness and disquiet became acute, to the point of a wild despair.

  • She rode down the river path through the forest, happy after many days of wretchedness.

  • Neither perfect peace, nor utter wretchedness can be of long continuance here below.

  • It was just what he had prayed for; having seen all along that her wretchedness was owing to her being shut up alone with him.

  • Men who remembered Walcheren sought in vain for a parallel to the wretchedness and mortality in our army.