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as in misery
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as in baseness
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Recent Examples of wretchedness
As our cantankerous lead, Molina harumphs lovably from scene to scene, conveying both his character’s indomitable will and the wretchedness of his grief.
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Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 31 May 2026
Director Penny Lane interviews jazz critics who howl at his wretchedness, then balances it with fans who simply don’t care.
—Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Feb. 2026
Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 31 May 2026
Director Penny Lane interviews jazz critics who howl at his wretchedness, then balances it with fans who simply don’t care.
—Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wretchedness
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The world may have looked grim in what was also a penultimate week before elections, when the focus becomes necessarily not on joy but misery, the political premise being the winning candidate is the one who makes the electorate the angriest.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2026
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Plus, to your other point, any contender is one injury away from misery, as the Warriors have shown with Stephen Curry in recent years or the Pacers showed with Tyrese Halliburton this season (while accepting the Celtics as an outlier).—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
2 June 2026
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The horror has come now like a storm— what if this night prefigured the night after death— what if all thereafter was an eternal quivering on the edge of an abyss, with everything base and vicious in oneself urging one forward and the baseness and viciousness of the world just ahead.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Mar. 2026
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When the family patriarch dies, Nicholas, his mother, and sister are thrown into financial destitution.—
Diana Arterian,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
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Even longtime supporters from the Alawite religious minority—the sect to which the Assads belong—began to complain about their destitution.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2026
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After 1965, when African Americans’ right to vote was constitutionally recognized, the meanness continued.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 May 2026
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The collective community is more important than the individual, and care trumps meanness.—
Sarah Wang,
PEOPLE,
16 May 2026
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The artist behind the series descended into poverty following the breakdown that left her unable to paint; years later her teen daughter, Indigo, herself a gifted artist, is barely keeping the two of them afloat.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
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De La Espriella has proposed poverty reduction through better education, healthcare and housing for the poorest.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
1 June 2026
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But without McManus, and after the Packers traded up from the seventh round to the sixth for Smack, the pressure is on him to reverse the Packers’ post-Mason Crosby kicking woes.—
Matt Schneidman,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
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Northland drivers have a small relief to their traffic woes, in the form of a one-lane northbound route.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
28 May 2026
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Trump has squeezed tight on the island’s already ailing economy, with a de facto blockade on the importation of oil bringing Cuba to virtual penury.—
Niall Stanage,
The Hill,
20 May 2026
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Such claims of penury, however, were difficult to square with certain facts.—
Patrick Radden Keefe,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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The agency is on the clock with its investigations, mandated by the state to complete accident investigations within six months, and, sources said, delays affect its ability to assess fines and determine criminality, and may have harmed families ability to receive restitution.—
Joe Rubin,
Sacbee.com,
6 May 2026
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But the public image was always one of criminality rather than survival.—
Pablo Larios,
Artforum,
6 May 2026
Cite this Entry
“Wretchedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wretchedness. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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