wretchedness

noun

Definition of wretchednessnext
1
as in misery

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2
as in baseness

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  1. misery
  2. destitution
  3. poverty
  4. woe
  5. penury
  6. criminality
  7. indigence
  8. necessity
Noun
  • The Democratic Party should be put out of its misery.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • While a fair number of New Yorkers may be at home alone tonight, watching prestige-TV reruns and trying to enter a fugue state, plenty of us plan to lean into the misery (or joy) of watching the election results in numbers.
    Curbed Staff, Curbed, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of misery
Noun
  • Thanks in part to regular double-digit levels of growth in the decades that followed economic liberalization — plus the very recent memory of total destitution — China’s population not too long ago was one of the most optimistic in the world.
    Bryan Walsh, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • At the same time, the restrictive conditions and lack of access to state support mean people are often forced to stay with exploitative employers, or face destitution and even deportation.
    Frey Lindsay, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
Definition of destitution
Noun
  • Raised in poverty, Jones would often recall being forced to catch, cook and eat rodents, or go hungry.
    Jessica Bennett, VIBE.com, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Pine Ridge has a long history of violence — a 1973 confrontation at Wounded Knee between activists and federal officials left several people dead — as well as high levels of poverty.
    Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of poverty
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  • With increasing public pressure, companies have been looking to nuclear power as a potential answer to their environmental woes.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • There is still hope, however, that Tunisians can fix their country’s woes through the political process.
    Sarah E. Yerkes, Foreign Affairs, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of woe
Noun
  • Anderson renders her character’s slow descent into virtual penury and laudanum addiction a genuinely heartrending experience, and her late-in-the-film breakdown about her uselessness stands as one of the decade’s great acting feats.
    IndieWire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
  • There’s a growing number of technocrats, business leaders and academics who see the current crisis in Gaza as the opportunity to confront the risk of Haredim pulling the country toward theocratic penury.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2024
Definition of penury
Noun
  • Well, one option might be to assume that the anonymous cash will be used primarily by criminals and possession of it will be taken to be prima facie evidence of criminality.
    David G.W. Birch, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Provided that the opposition is united in its decision, another electoral contest can serve as a moment for the opposition to marshal evidence of the regime’s criminality and to dial up internal pressure via street-level organizing.
    Christopher Sabatini, Foreign Affairs, 9 Oct. 2024
Definition of criminality
Noun
  • The ceaseless movement of staff around the world compounds this nebulous sensation of perpetual indigence.
    Nick Foulkes, theweek, 7 Nov. 2024
  • In its first three years, Bolsa Família cut extreme poverty by 15 percent, and by 2014, the percentage of Brazilians living in indigence had been slashed to less than three percent—a level the World Bank considers equivalent to eradication.
    Jonathan Tepperman, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2015
Definition of indigence
Noun
  • Despite a lack of funding for even basic educational necessities, and school district leaders who only care about the barest minimum standards, these educators are united by their drive to surpass expectations and encourage their students to do the same.
    Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Many have been restored, re-illuminated and deeply threaded into the city’s fabric via nostalgia or necessity.
    Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of necessity
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