wretchedness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wretchedness
Noun
  • The ongoing misery in Charlotte prompted a popular Panthers-centric podcast to throw in the towel.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • But aid agencies say that Israel’s intensification of the war, particularly around Gaza City, has compounded the misery faced by Palestinians.
    Soph Warnes, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In late August, the World Health Organization cited a new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis that found more than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution and preventable deaths.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
  • All that remains of the American Dream is the thin line between wealth and destitution.
    Andy Andersen, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Families with incomes not exceeding 200% of the federal poverty level are eligible to participate in Wisconsin Shares, and may remain eligible until their income reaches 85% of the state median income.
    Jessie Opoien, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • If not renewed, those earning above 400% of the federal poverty level will lose subsidies, while those below 100% will see reduced support.
    Beth Warren, Nashville Tennessean, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Trump’s policies have exacerbated those woes, from the deportation of the industry’s key migrant workforce to renewed trade tensions between the United States and China.
    Alayna Treene, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Some of Rite Aid’s financial woes were self-inflicted, as retail expert Peter Cohan, an associate professor of management practice at Babson College, previously told the Washington Examiner that corporate mismanagement played a large role.
    Callie Patteson, The Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In the summer of 2021 protests began over the shortages and the penuries that people had been feeling.
    Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Narrating this account of her brief life, Emily provides a sharp perspective on the penury and isolation that created such anguish — and such inspiration — for the Brontë sisters.
    Alida Becker, New York Times, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • The first is to expose Hamas’s criminality and the futility of its terror, which has led to the annihilation of Gaza.
    Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2025
  • His manipulating voters with their own tax dollars borders on criminality.
    John Moorlach, Oc Register, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Separately, Biden thrice designated Haiti for Temporary Protected Status in the aftermath of the murder of President Jovenel Moise, a devastating earthquake, mass internal displacement, widespread gang violence, chronic hunger and extreme impoverishment.
    Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Though very little information from the isolated nation reaches the outside world now, reports indicate severe impoverishment and malnourishment throughout much of the country.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • His legal team also filed a separate motion requesting a public defender be assigned to his case, citing indigence.
    Jessica Sager, People.com, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The ceaseless movement of staff around the world compounds this nebulous sensation of perpetual indigence.
    Nick Foulkes, theweek, 7 Nov. 2024
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“Wretchedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wretchedness. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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