How to Use wretched in a Sentence

wretched

adjective

• The slums were filled with poor, wretched children.
• I don't know what's wrong with her, but she looks wretched.
• How did we get into this wretched state of affairs?
• What a wretched performance that was.
• That movie was positively wretched.
• Who can forget the wretched Kool-Aid Man game for the Atari 2600?
  — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 16 Sep. 2019
• Luce himself was once one of Fanon’s so-called wretched of the Earth.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2019
• Odysseus would have died then, wretched man—not at all his fate!
  — Homer, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
• Now is the time to welcome a new wave of wretched whorebags.
  — Amanda Rosenberg, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2021
• Even in the wretched misery that was 2021, the Rangers didn’t suffer a four-game home sweep.
  — Dallas News, 17 July 2022
• But the Wolverines are keenly aware of the wretched state of their in-state rival.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 12 Nov. 2019
• The macadam on Tenth Street comes out of the winter in wretched condition.
  — Arthur Hart, idahostatesman, 30 June 2018
• And then we, the wretched media of United 837, were led into a lounge to wait.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 July 2021
• And in some cases the wretched nature of the housing was also to blame.
  — Tracy Kidder, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
• This is a sleazy, wretched racket, yet the film is nearly as blithe about it as Shawn is.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 July 2023
• Consider how many wretched teams there have been in the last 30 years.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2019
• More than anyone, her luck in Olympic years was wretched.
  — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 13 July 2020
• The performance was so wretched the Colts turned to a guy who didn’t even know his teammates’ names.
  — Stephen Holder, Indianapolis Star, 17 Sep. 2017
• There is no end of this wretched war in sight, and there is an election looming.
  — Ayelet Waldman, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2024
• Yet life in Yemen has become wretched and perilous, on a mass scale.
  — Bloomberg.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• The wretched litany is a nearly Hobbesian nightmare: nasty and brutish, but not short.
  — Sigrid MacRae, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
• Clearly, the faker must have come from some wretched hive of scum and villainy.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2012
• The room is quiet, save for a roaring fume hood to mask the wretched formalin stench.
  — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 7 May 2018
• That shouldn’t be ignored because of a wretched 10-21 record.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 23 Feb. 2021
• None of the wretched outside world is allowed to seep inside.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2019
• If anyone's going to bring back the wretched trucker, Uzi's a good bet.
  — Jake Woolf, GQ, 23 Feb. 2018
• Meanwhile his wife was in Paris, alone, wretched, and very unwell.
  — Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 21 Sep. 2022
• The ambiance at the Oakland arena has changed over the years, as ticket prices rose (and rise) and the team evolved from wretched to divine.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Mar. 2018
• As a scoundrel, players decide on their own code among a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2024
• Chris is beautiful and popular, unlike the reclusive, strange Carrie; telekinesis or not, no one wants to be wretched Carrie.
  — Rafaela Bassili, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024