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I never saw a man in so wretched a condition.
Human beings-human children especially-seldom deny themselves the pleasure of exercising a power which they are conscious of possessing, even though that power consist only in a capacity to make others wretched.
Begone, wretched spawn of Hell's unholy bowels!
Movie subtitles
You learn new things all the time when you're in this wretched club.
Wretched oaf!
Okay, you wretched scoundrel, how did you get in here?!
Tiny wretched flies!
I wish we could burn that wretched laboratory. and everything in it.
Build for the humble and the wretched.
How wretched you must be!
That wretched Holmes has recovered the original.
It's really a wretched morning.
Sitting here is a wretched Jew who for months brought nothing but lies.
Yes, what is to become of the wretched creatures?
Wretched stuff!
Wretched nuisances, teeth.
I'll destroy your wretched descendants and leave you to the vultures.
This wretched man seems to think that we haven't got. the money to pay off the mortgage. But we have, haven't we!
Where is this wretched train taking us?
Me? Oh, I'm wretched.
I'm wretched here.
From all I can gather about this wretched spook. you're not going to find it under that glass.
I'm not sure this wretched spook, as you call it, was responsible for what happened.
Wretched woman.
The wretched train start and they go. They never seem to arrive.
When I told him I simply had to have two servants by this afternoon the wretched man laughed in my face.
Every time I take a stroke, I see her wretched face.
As for Gudule, thinking of her wretched condition, she burst into tears.
Now I'm to be the most wretched mother as well.
Wretched stuff! Give me a chocolate, quick!
Thales has given me the most wretched task.
It's not in me to do such a wretched thing.
I know everything, you wretched jackal!
Wretched ragamuffin!
You're a poor, wretched group of people who have taken the wrong turning.
What a wretched and peevish fellow is this king of England, to mope with his fat-brained followers so far out of his knowledge!
News and current affairs
In 1900, when the global human population was 1.5 billion, almost three million people - roughly one in 500 - died each year from air pollution, mostly from wretched indoor air.
The public, disillusioned by the kleptocratic regimes of Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif that preceded Musharraf, is far too wretched and ambivalent to rise up.
It may annoy the Polish to recognize this, but if they make such a choice they will be condemned to a perpetual third rate status, scarcely above the most wretched places on earth and without any illusion of progress.
Because it is, we must un-learn the wretched habit of thinking that truthfulness resides in the messenger rather than the message.
Similarly, it would have been much better to let Wilders show his wretched film in Britain than to ban him.
For starters, leaders of destination countries - whether in Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia, or Oceania - should not turn their back on the desperate and wretched.
Above all, the Congo matters because of the continuing violence, wretched poverty, and misery of most of its nearly 70 million people.
Further escalation in the Middle East will culminate in these wretched alternatives sooner rather than later, unless a diplomatic solution is found (or unless diplomacy can at least buy time).