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wretch (n.)
1.a person of second-rate ability or value"a team of aging second-raters" "shone among the mediocrities who surrounded him"
2.someone you feel sorry for
3.performs some wicked deed
4.a person without moral scruples
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Merriam Webster
WretchWretch (?), n. [OE. wrecche, AS. wrecca, wræcca, an exile, a wretch, fr. wrecan to drive out, punish; properly, an exile, one driven out, akin to AS. wræc an exile, OS. wrekkio a stranger, OHG. reccheo an exile. See Wreak, v. t.]
1. A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy. “The wretch that lies in woe.” Shak.
Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son,
Wretch even then, life's journey just begun? Cowper.
2. One sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable person; a vile knave; as, a profligate wretch.
☞ Wretch is sometimes used by way of slight or ironical pity or contempt, and sometimes to express tenderness; as we say, poor thing. “Poor wretch was never frighted so.” Drayton.
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wretch (n.)
bad lot, devil, mediocrity, miscreant, nonentity, poor devil, poor soul, poor wretch, rascal, reprobate, rogue, scoundrel, second-rater, villain, worm, cad (old, pejorative), poor bastard (American), poor bugger (British)
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wretch (n.)
↘ crookedness, deviousness ↗ abject, low, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy, vile
wretch (n.)
personne méchante (fr)[Classe]
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personne médiocre (fr)[Classe]
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wretch (n.)
personne malhonnête (fr)[Classe]
scélérat (fr)[CeQuiEst~]
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