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
“Barbarous wretch: do you think I can live by imagination alone?”
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
He was a tough-looking wretch with dark chocolatl on his top lip and a gaunt black rat for a daemon.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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
The perfect show for all of us ink-stained wretches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2018
The fellows over there are well looked after; they fare magnificently, as against us, poor starving wretches, with our turnip jam; they can get all the meat they want.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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