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Wretchedness

noun
1.
A state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune.  Synonyms: miserableness, misery.
2.
The character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant.  "The grey wretchedness of the rain"
3.
The quality of being poor and inferior and sorry.





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"Wretchedness" Quotes from Famous Books



... to pour out words—he knew not what words, but he knew that they had been straining at his lips—to wreck his self-respect for ever, and hopelessly defeat even the crazy purpose that had almost possessed him, by drowning her wretchedness in disgust, by babbling with the tongue of infatuation to a woman with a husband not yet buried, to a woman who loved ...
— Trent's Last Case - The Woman in Black • E.C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley
... funeral service said over the body of "old Jim Jimson," who had given them such help as they could not dispense with in their square bit of garden, and squandered the money that should have provided for the wife and five children whose wretchedness had torn Gerry's ...
— The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls • Various
... infant was starving with hunger, and all Flora's efforts to keep it quiet proved unavailing. The gentlemen were as sick and helpless as the baby, and nothing could well increase their wretchedness. They had now been ten hours at sea; and, not expecting the least detention from the non-arrival of the steamer, nothing in the way of refreshment had formed any part of their luggage. Those who had escaped the horrors of sea-sickness, ...
— Flora Lyndsay - or, Passages in an Eventful Life • Susan Moodie
... toasted cheese, and hard salted meat has led to suicide. Unpleasant feelings of the body produce correspondent sensations in the mind, and a great scene of wretchedness is sketched out by a morsel of indigestible and ...
— Pearls of Thought • Maturin M. Ballou
... convulsively about the iron bars that guarded his window, but the feeling of horror that suddenly seized him was remote from self-pity. He was thinking of Elizabeth. What unspeakable wretchedness he had brought into her life, and he was still to bequeath her this squalid brutal death! It was the crowning shame and misery to the long months of doubt and ...
— The Just and the Unjust • Vaughan Kester


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