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Barca winger Anthony Gordon also called him "one of the best in the world" before the game, even though Emery's record at the Nou Camp is wretched.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Meanwhile, exposés of the wretched conditions in state asylums began to get public attention.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

I can’t remember what the point of this story was, except that we had descended into the world of wretched excess.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

United's 4-1 Champions League defeat in Italy was the result of a wretched performance and Fernandes questioned boss Michael Carrick's tactics.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Be that as it may, she saw him go with regret; and in this early example of what Lydia’s infamy must produce, found additional anguish as she reflected on that wretched business.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

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

I don't believe there was a wretcheder soul in that big city of wretchedness than me.

From The Story of a Bad Boy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Yes, so they have; though not many wretcheder things. 

From The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy

No roads were wretcheder than theirs; nobody cared less than they.

From The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther

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

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

He saw to-day only the wretchedest and ugliest sights.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter

Rotten, rotten old world," broke out Eleanor suddenly, "and the wretchedest thing of all is me—oh, why am I a girl?

From This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

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