wretched
Example Sentences
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"That's the only thing I can set against the wretched bishop image."
From BBC
This is after all a horror picture, and Stevenson layers on the horror tropes with a trowel, so much so that the movie descends into wretched excessiveness.
From Seattle Times
And thanks to its actors, there’s a credibly heavy sense of the personal prisons within literal ones that only a wretched war can foster.
From Los Angeles Times
However, having won the Community Shield against City and beaten them in the Premier League at Emirates Stadium in October, can they now end their wretched run on the road?
From BBC
Another passenger had a bad cough and a wretched demeanor.
From Los Angeles Times
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