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How to use wretchedness in a sentence

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Besides, it gives her a window on community wretchedness and some remarkable efforts to combat it.
In fact, they mattered more than her wretchedness, even more than my loved, lost and delinquent father who had put us in this situation.
But there are fissures in the cocky exterior that occasionally reveal a rage and a wretchedness that seems to border on despair.
But, he failed to mention that, with that knowledge comes misery and wretchedness, pain and suffering.
He would not creep about the country with moaning voice and melancholy eyes, with draggled dress and outward signs of wretchedness.
But the statistics alone, as horrifying as they are, hardly convey the trauma, pain and wretchedness of the victims.
Nine months on, could the desire to put an end to the wretchedness of war plot a path out of Syria's four-year conflict?
It has one of the best closet scenes ever: with Clare Higgins as a raunchy, bibulous Gertrude dishevelling into a tousled heap of wretchedness.
Out of sight are pockets of wretchedness similar to slums in developing countries such as India.
He chose to identify very particularly with those in conditions of poverty and wretchedness.
We can be that sign, despite our own wretchedness, if with faith and trembling we let Christ live in us.
And again it is our wretchedness that impedes us now from contemplating Our Lord, and makes his figure appear dark and distorted.
Your wretchedness is not an obstacle but a spur for you to become more united to God and seek him constantly, because He purifies us.
Even in your wretchedness and your guilt, I accept you as you are and tell you that I have forgiven you already.
He has to wait in the church for the other confessors to finish, which leaves him plenty of time to keep meditating on the wretchedness of his sins.
In the subsequent chapters the narrator is pulled, inexorably, to new depths of disillusionment and wretchedness.
The working classes of thatcherite Britain were in dire need of a spokesperson to celebrate their wretchedness.
Many people around the world experience, at some time or the other in their lifetimes, a feeling of wretchedness, desolation, hysteria and ingratitude within themselves.
I weep over my wretchedness throughout the day.
In her hands our offerings are purified and our wretchedness is cleansed.
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My estate that morning had been that of a king, of a god, in contrast to this present wretchedness.
Then the doctor went on to speak of the prolificness of wretchedness, the swarming of the lower classes.
All the worlds wretchedness, sorrow, hunger, thirst and suffering lies behind the lurid lights of the redlight haunts.
What have we done, we and the insects, to be ground with sovran indifference under the mill-stone of such wretchedness?
There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene.
Neither poverty nor wretchedness could dull the lustrous, deep-hued, flowerlike beauty that was hers by nature.
He was full of an overwhelming sense of his own wretchedness and sinfulness.
The greatest wretchedness which human nature in this world is called to endure, is connected with the use of inebriating drink.
He raised his strengthless hand for a few inches, and let it fall with a gesture of hopeless wretchedness.
Wilfrid worked through all the intervolutions, and nearly forgot his wretchedness in admiration of his sister's mental endowments.
Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable?
Among the rioters, to sum up the account of their infamy and wretchedness, was Jack Ketch himself.
All the wretchedness of her life seems to have culminated, the little doubts she has thrust out or tried to overlive.
Who can speak of it if he has not known the wretchedness of others?
Now dozing, now tossing about in wretchedness, she lay till the afternoon.
The wretchedness of slavery, and the blessedness of freedom, were perpetually before me.
He was determined not to let the Street encroach on his wretchedness.
I walked slowly, for I was almost exhausted, as well as lame, and I felt the intensest wretchedness for the horrible death of little Weena.
The worldliness and the wretchedness, and now it is too late!
And then, amid his lore of wretchedness he hid his face and wept.
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