wretch
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If Zabka weren’t so charming, we couldn’t have bought the proposition that an ignorant wretch like Johnny could be redeemable.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2025
This pathetic wretch longs to escape to Istanbul, where he can be around the worldly types he prefers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
She opposed what she described as a "Western perception that the African female is a downtrodden wretch".
From BBC ● May 31, 2023
His Harry is in some ways the flip side of Smike, the poor mangled wretch he played in “The Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby” in the early 1980s.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2022
Like as not, I’ll never see the wretch again, he thought bitterly, but even so the chance had to be taken.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
It turns out, folks actually liked watching real-life wisdom from ink-stained wretches.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
When some of my fellow ink-stained wretches say things like “people are saying x should be fired,” the “people” are usually 15 randos with their cat as their profile pic.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
They are surely not going to die like the wretches of 17th-century London or 18th-century Canton.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2020
They had of course become very dirty and on that account they have been reproached as degraded wretches.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2019
“Ah, yes, I hear these naughty ones go to vex you, Mees Marsch. If so again, call at me and I come,” he said, with a threatening frown that delighted the little wretches.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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