Wretch (Noun)
Meaning 2
Someone you feel sorry for.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The poor wretch had lost his job, his home, and his family all in the same week.
- The old man, a wretch forgotten by society, wandered the streets with a look of despair in his eyes.
- She felt a pang of sympathy for the wretch who was begging on the corner, his tattered clothes and frail frame a testament to his hardship.
- The sickly wretch lay in the hospital bed, his fragile body ravaged by disease and his eyes filled with a deep sadness.
- The young wretch, barely out of her teens, had been forced into prostitution to survive, and her eyes told a story of lost hope.