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wretch

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6 lettersPronunciation /ɹɛt͡ʃ/Part of speech nounSorted cehrtwStarts with WEnds with H0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. someone you feel sorry for

Word origin

From Middle English wrecche, from Old English wreċċa (“exile, outcast”), from Proto-Germanic *wrakjô (“exile, fugitive, warrior”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (“to track, follow”). Doublet of garçon.

Used in a sentence

  • The poor wretch, who lay motionless a long time, just began to recover his senses as a stage-coach came by.
  • 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.
  • Swear to me but, thou bold wretch! said she, swear to me, that Pamela Andrews is really and truly thy lawful wife, without sham, without deceit, without double-meaning; and I know what I have to say!

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