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Definition of "wretches" []

  • Plural form of wretch. (noun)

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Use "wretches" in a sentence
  • "And as I looked down upon the poor wretches from the break of the poop, standing there in the high place, the vision of my kind down all its mad, violent, and masterful past was strong upon me."
  • "They hurried forward, with yells of defiance; but the strength of the garrison, awakened by the flying wretches from the defeat, turned out all its power, and with De Valence at their head, pouring on Kirkpatrick's men, would have overpowered them had not Wallace and his sixty heroes, with desperate determination, cut a passage to them through the closing ranks."
  • "They called them out by a sort of roll of their nations, one after another, much in the manner in which they called wretches out of their prison to the guillotine."