Wretchedness

Definition

wretched /'retʃÇd/ adj ၁။ စိတ္မခ်မ္းသာေသာ။ စိတ္ဆင္းရဲေသာ။ I felt wretched about not being able to help her. ❍ His migraine made him feel wretched (ie ill and miserable) all morning. ❍ people living in wretched poverty. ၂။ စိတ္ပ်က္စရာ။ စုတ္ခ်ာခ်ာ။ wretched weather. ၃။ ( infml ) (စိတ္ကသိကေအာက္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေဖာ္ျပေသာ စကား)။ ေသာက္သံုးမက်တဲ့။ The wretched car won't start again! ❍ I'm sick of the whole wretched business. wretchedly adv, wretchedness n [U]: a life of utter wretchedness.

Examples

1. ‘The role of A Vijayaraghavan
2. MP
3. was significant in securing Indian citizenship for these wretched people.’
4. ‘The man was poor and wretched and had no claim upon the ruler
5. no right even to lift a solicitous hand.’
6. ‘He begs for food and wears only a loincloth and a cloak
7. shunning the townspeople and becoming a wretched figure with unkempt hair and long fingernails.’
8. ‘When these wretched people arrived at Grosse Ile it was ill-equipped to deal with such a humanitarian disaster.’
9. ‘He was taken aback by the sheer number of places they had found containing such wretched people.’
10. ‘Pentheus tore away his headband from his hair
11. and ripped the feminine disguise from his frame that his wretched mother might recognize him!’
12. ‘But he doesn't make you think that the people were a poor
13. wretched mass of unwashed humanity.’
14. ‘I have also still got the flu to some extent
15. and I am feeling slightly less than wretched
16. but I was wretched as recently as yesterday.’
17. ‘Harry's wretched past revisits him vividly
18. trailing behind it issues of betrayal
19. death
20. punishment and revenge.’
21. ‘Younger brother Prince Khurram promptly had him killed
22. as fraternal ambitions were not to be encouraged
23. even though the wretched Prince Khusrau was blind.’
24. ‘A just man maintains his life as a wretched beggar while another
25. stained by well known crimes
26. accumulates the highest honours.’
27. ‘Although they were all being tenderly cared for by wonderful nurses
28. with plenty of personal attention and attempts to comfort and stimulate them
29. they were absolutely wretched.’
30. ‘The only glimmer of hope for these wretched people is the emergence of organised resistance to the present policies.’
31. ‘You aren't the complicated villain nor the wretched hero.’
32. ‘A fanatic easily makes conquests among a wretched people.’
33. ‘Have not the rich been guilty of ignoring the cry of the wretched and the poor in this little world we share?’
34. ‘The poor wretched beast was tied up on a rope that was too short to let him lie down.’
35. ‘I must have cut a wretched figure
36. filthy and sunburnt
37. to the brother who heard my explanations about who I was and why I was here.’
38. ‘Needless to say
39. Zinfer's very first day on Planet Earth had turned out to be an unbelievably wretched experience for the poor little prince.’
40. ‘Her eyes had widened considerably upon taking in the sight the wretched man
41. and she feared she might be sick from looking at his numerous injuries.’