View example sentences, synonyms and word forms for Wretchedness.
Wretchedness
Wretchedness meaning
An unhappy state of mental or physical suffering. | A state of prolonged misfortune, privation, or anguish.
Synonyms of Wretchedness
Example sentences (6)
I’m struggling to reconcile the city I love with the wretchedness.
Seeking solutions to such widespread wretchedness, he began to read Marxist-Leninist literature.
He is entirely imbued and penetrated with it; everywhere his theme is the mockery and wretchedness of this existence.
Norris, p. 66. Part of the reason for this change has been the altered interpretations of what wretchedness and grace means.
Romanticism revered the traditionalism of rural life and recoiled against the upheavals caused by industrialization, urbanization and the wretchedness of the working classes.
The poet and colonist Edmund Spenser wrote that the victims "were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same".