wretch

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Recent Examples of wretch Since then, he’s been a haunted wretch of a character: stoned, sullen, stuck with recurring visions of shooting his wife and himself. Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2025 The unfortunate wretch makes an exciting escape, killing her captor in the process. Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 Feb. 2025 As Blake transforms into a swollen, oozing wretch who gnaws frantically on his own wounds, his family appears as glowing-eyed aliens, their words a jumble of indecipherable sounds. Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025 The wretch was one E. W. Perera, a pivotal figure in the Ceylonese independence movement—and someone the narrator had celebrated growing up in Sri Lanka. Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025 The wretch in question has cut down one of the speaker’s spruce trees without his permission. Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2023 Had this poor wretch been well supplied with friends and money the result, as in numerous other instances, might have been different. San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2023 Or would a wretch like me be saved by His amazing grace? Damon Young, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2022 The song's lyrics also leave no topic off limits, touching on all that made the band wonder and wretch, with a tongue-in-cheek approach. Derek Scancarelli, EW.com, 12 May 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wretch
Noun
  • Two of the game’s most brilliant villains have matured into eloquent eulogists.
    Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2025
  • For an industry which has long been treated by the television and film industries as a dirty, dangerous business run by unethical, cartoon-ish villains like J.R. Ewing, such a balanced portrayal is a welcome change, indeed.
    David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • This freshly re-imagined Jag is worlds apart from that old German brute, but was similar in the sense of feeling wonderfully light and responsive, and utilizing hydraulic fluid to power its steering.
    Peter Nelson, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
  • Cops released surveillance photos of a trio of brutes wanted for punching, repeatedly stabbing and robbing a man on a Bronx train last month.
    Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 7 June 2025
Noun
  • Call of Cthulhu flipped a lot of gaming conventions on their head with characters that degraded over time and scenarios that rewarded fleeing monsters instead of slaying them.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
  • Complaining on NextDoor about traffic, some locals fled downtown Austin like a movie monster was stomping behind them.
    Ramon Ramirez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Often regarded by historians as a collection of savage tribes, the Scythians emerge as a pivotal force of the ancient world in this monumental history.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Nearly 32 years ago, Rodney King’s savage beating by police in Los Angeles prompted heartfelt calls for change.
    Aaron Morrison, Claudia Lauer and Adrian Sainz, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2023
Noun
  • Assign someone to challenge ideas or play devil’s advocate.
    Elizabeth Freedman, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • Like, Mars is a character, kind of like a devil on my shoulder.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • But with this bill, Republicans are laying the groundwork to gut safeguards that stopped criminals from getting these deadly weapons.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 July 2025
  • Recently, however, the technology has been used by criminals for purposes of sextortion.
    Steve Weisman, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • The beasts were spotted at around 11:30 a.m. near Beach 32nd Street.
    Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2025
  • That's because, even though restaurants can be unpredictable beasts, food and labor are largely considered to be controllable costs.
    Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Yet each performance feels angled at a slightly different degree, one distinct acting turn making all the difference between a charming scoundrel, a depressed artist, a loyal sidekick, an aloof intellectual, or a precocious kid.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 12 June 2025
  • Is Jim Ellis a live-fast, die-young scoundrel or just a mostly pretty nice guy with a heart of gold who just happens to be working for the mob?
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025

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“Wretch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wretch. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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