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In that case, you will likely find yourself traveling to or from the concourse on a wretched holdover of mid-century transportation design: the people mover.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

Hopefully the generation of Gen Z musicians depicted in the film still lust over the chance to try, even as a wretched economy makes road-dogging harder today while digital fame beckons instead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

With three months to go in this wretched season, the MVP of the 2026 Angels is abundantly clear: Molly Jolly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

A Noah Caluori-inspired Saracens gave their Prem play-off hopes a much-needed boost with a 13-try 85-19 victory over a wretched Sale Sharks at the CorpAcq Stadium.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026

Finally, I remember that when I got into my little bedroom, I was truly wretched, and had a strong conviction on me that I should never like Joe’s trade.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Especially wretched young men; and the wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets—a vicious circle!

From Peter Ibbetson by George Du Maurier

Yes," sighed Lady Jean; "but Moira would be wretcheder because she would always be thinking of Reggy.

From Stories That End Well An Adventure in Altruria——Through the Terrors of the Law——The Real Thing——The Old Partisan——Max—Or His Picture——The Stout Miss Hopkins' Bicycle——The Spellbinder——The Object of the Federation——The Little Lonely Girl——The Hero of Company G——A Miracle Play by Octave Thanet

And made me mount upon the bare ridge, T' avoid a wretcheder miscarriage.

From Hudibras by Samuel Butler

Ah the poor Lover!—In the changing Hands Of Day and Night no wretcheder than He!

From Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson by Edward FitzGerald

"The wretcheder are the contemners of all helps."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Last week, on the 19th anniversary of that historic Dempsey-Carpentier battle, Jersey City was the scene of another heavyweight prize fight that will probably go down in history as the wretchedest of the post-Dempsey era.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the wretchedest slum quarter of Partinico. a pinched little town near Palermo, a man lay starving last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

Happy! if happiness be indeed what we men are sent into this world to seek for, those hitherto thought the noblest among us were the pitifullest and wretchedest.

From Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc by Hilaire Belloc

"For of all things, that on the earth do breathe Or creep, man is by far the wretchedest."

From Plutarch's Morals by Arthur Richard Shilleto

He could strike into the geographical road, which begins with the wretchedest history in the world,—the history of countries.

From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter