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
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
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
On the other hand, Trabb’s boy might worm himself into his intimacy and tell him things; or, reckless and desperate wretch as I knew he could be, might hoot him in the High Street.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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