What now, you wretch? You thinking of protecting her?
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Wretch
//ɹɛt͡ʃ//
Synonyms for "wretch" (74 found)
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Related words (37)
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7 entriesTranslations
65 translations across 22 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- τάλαινα noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- τάλας noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
Bulgarian
2 entries- клетник noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- нещастник noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 可怜虫 noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- 坏蛋 noun (unpleasant, annoying person)
Czech
2 entries- ničema noun (unpleasant, annoying person)
- ubožák noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
Dutch
2 entries- ellendeling noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- wrak noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
Egyptian
1 entries- U2:ir-A-r:T12-nDs:A1 noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
Esperanto
1 entries- bedaŭrindulo noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
Finnish
3 entries- poloinen noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- raasu noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- ressukka noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
French
3 entries- malheureuse noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- malheureux noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- misérable noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
Galician
1 entries- coitado noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
German
4 entries- Loser noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- Tropf noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- Unglücklicher noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- armer Schlucker noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
Indonesian
3 entries- bedebah noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- orang celaka noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- orang malang noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
Ingrian
1 entries- raiska noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
Irish
4 entries- aimleoir noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- aimléis noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- anacróir noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- cladhaire noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
Italian
4 entries- iellato noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- miserabile noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- omuncolo noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- straccio noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
Macedonian
4 entries- бедник noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- жалник noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- клетник noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- несреќник noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
Polish
1 entries- biedak noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
Portuguese
3 entries- coitado noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- desgraçado noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- miserável noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
Romanian
2 entries- nefericit noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- nenorocit noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
Russian
2 entries- бедня́га noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- бедня́жка noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
Spanish
4 entries- desgraciada noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- desgraciado noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- desventurada noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- desventurado noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
Swedish
2 entries- stackare noun (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)
- usling noun (unpleasant, annoying person)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
The man that lays his hand upon a woman, save in the way of kindness, is a wretch whom't were gross flattery to name a coward.
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One should never deride the wretch, for who can be sure of always being happy?
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That man was a wretch.
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