See wretch on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1742, Henry Fielding, chapter 12, in Joseph Andrews, archived from the original on 2012-04-05:",
"text": "The poor wretch, who lay motionless a long time, just began to recover his senses as a stage-coach came by.",
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"ref": "1789, Watkin Tench, chapter 14, in The Expedition to Botany Bay, archived from the original on 2011-03-03:",
"text": "The four unhappy wretches labouring under sentence of banishment were freed from their fetters, to rejoin their former society; and three days given as holidays to every convict in the colony.",
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"ref": "1936, Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, in A Further Range:",
"text": "And his subjects wrung all they could wring / Out of temple and palace and store. / But when there seemed no more to bring, / His captors convicted the king / Of once having started a war, / And strangled the wretch with a string.",
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"word": "τάλαινα"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"word": "orang malang"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"word": "orang celaka"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"word": "bedebah"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"word": "raiska"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "aimléis"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "aimleoir"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "anacróir"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cnápach"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cráiteachán"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "donán"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "donóg"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "eiseamláir"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fuad"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fuaice"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fualán"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "raispín"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rama"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sianaí"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tráill"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "troch"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "trua"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "truaill"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "truailleachán"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "truán"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "truanairt"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"word": "miserabile"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "iellato"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "omuncolo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "straccio"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tapino"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "bednik",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бедник"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "nesreḱnik",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "несреќник"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "kletnik",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "клетник"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "jadnik",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "јадник"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "biedak"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "miserável"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "desgraçado"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "coitado"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"word": "nenorocit"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"word": "nefericit"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bednjága",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "бедня́га"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bednjážka",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "бедня́жка"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "desgraciado"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "desventurado"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "desgraciada"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "desventurada"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "stackare"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huàidàn",
"sense": "unpleasant, annoying person",
"word": "坏蛋"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "unpleasant, annoying person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ničema"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "unpleasant, annoying person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elender Wicht"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "nikakvec",
"sense": "unpleasant, annoying person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "никаквец"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "podlec",
"sense": "unpleasant, annoying person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "подлец"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "unpleasant, annoying person",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "usling"
}
],
"word": "wretch"
}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English misspellings",
"English non-lemma forms",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:People"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "misspelling"
},
"expansion": "wretch",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "retch"
}
],
"categories": [
"English misspellings"
],
"glosses": [
"Misspelling of retch."
],
"links": [
[
"retch",
"retch#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"misspelling"
]
}
],
"word": "wretch"
}
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