wretch

You know, the one where “The wretch, concentred all in self / Living, shall forfeit fair renown”?

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

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

Meeting Wilson after the game for an interview in a conference room at Camp Randall Stadium, I was startled that a 5-foot-11, ink-stained wretch like me could look him straight in the eye.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2022

She’d been moved into the wretch house and no one had come to her aid.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

To the author Évelyne Trouillot, writing in another essay, this image evokes “boat people” migrants — but seen as hopeful voyagers, not huddled wretches.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2023

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 had of course become very dirty and on that account they have been reproached as degraded wretches.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2019

"Print journalists have been portrayed as heroes, as ink-stained wretches, as corrupt," says John Maynard, director of programs for the Newseum in Washington, D.C.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2017

The rooms were jammed from morning until night and we were called upon by these old wretches to show our rapping when we should have been out at play in the fresh air.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock