Dictionary entry

Wretch

Pronunciation: /rɛtʃ/

Pronunciation

/rɛtʃ/

Myanmar Meaning

ကံမကောင်းသော ၊ သနားစရာကောင်းသော လူပုဂ္ဂိုလ်။ အပြစ်တင်ခံထိုက်သောသူ။

Definition

wretch /retʃ/ n ၁။ ဒုကၡေရာက္ေနသူ။ ကံဆိုးသူ။ a poor half-starved wretch. ၂။ ( often joc ) အေကာင္ယုတ္။ အေကာင္စုတ္။ He's a despicable wretch. ❍ You wretch! You've eaten my cake!

Examples

  1. ‘After all
  2. we get only occasional glimpses of helpless wretches living in slums
  3. or in places far removed from our wonderful clean
  4. green environment.’
  5. ‘The poor wretch had no idea what he was getting into.’
  6. ‘It was
  7. evidently
  8. some poor penniless wretch trying to keep from freezing to death on the coldest day of the year.’
  9. ‘How I pity the unhappy wretches who are doomed to dwell in such a place!’
  10. ‘Poor wretch
  11. the officers tell me that he was caught robbing a loaf of bread from the basket of a wealthy Lady who had bought it.’
  12. ‘You will agree
  13. sir
  14. that these wretches behaved like men whose nephews and grand-nephews were condemned in perpetuity to remain as poor as their ancestors.’
  15. ‘For those poor wretches
  16. many of whom are innocent of the charges they face
  17. but who cannot afford big-name attorneys
  18. they stew in prison and suffer in court.’
  19. ‘His picture of writers as frustrated
  20. unpraised
  21. unrewarded wretches
  22. pitied at parties and whispered about among families
  23. drew laughter and wry nods.’
  24. ‘Will your readers kindly give just one moment's thought in comparing with their own
  25. who are well fed
  26. clothed
  27. housed and cared for
  28. the poor wretches I have described?’
  29. ‘If the writers win
  30. the publishers fear they'll be vulnerable to lawsuits by ink-stained wretches and so will be forced to excise freelance articles from their databases.’
  31. ‘The latter
  32. poor wretches
  33. are willing and ready to work in sweatshop conditions for $1 an hour
  34. if that.’
  35. ‘The poor wretch working the steady cam must have been exhausted.’
  36. ‘I plan to see The Prisoner of Azkaban on Thursday
  37. and even though that's a school day (in this state
  38. anyway)
  39. I just know the cinema will be packed with mewling wretches anyway.’
  40. ‘The economy is heavily dependent on massive production of cotton
  41. the revenue from which brings almost no economic benefit to the wretches who pick it in conditions of serfdom.’
  42. ‘He watched the poor wretch the commanding officer was lecturing
  43. and looked on him with little pity.’
  44. ‘But the tearful lover
  45. turned away from her door
  46. often smothers the threshold with flowers and garlands
  47. and anoints the proud doorposts with marjoram
  48. and plants kisses
  49. poor wretch
  50. on the door.’
  51. ‘I hope someone turns the wretches in to the police.’
  52. ‘It may be just a smear to you
  53. mate
  54. but it's life and death to some poor wretch.’
  55. ‘I asked Miss D' Lish to send us a little info to help out those unfortunate wretches who might not be familiar with her life and work.’
  56. ‘But then
  57. we realize that if we do not help this poor wretch
  58. it is going to turn out that
  59. when we need help