Used in a Sentence

wretchedness

How to use wretchedness in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for wretchedness.

Editorial note

If SO was meant to fix the wretchedness of forums . .

Examples25
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of wretchedness gathered in one view.

noun

a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"

noun

the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant; "the wretchedness for which these prisons became known"; "the grey wretchedness of the rain"

noun

the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry; "he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for wretchedness.

noun

a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"

noun

the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant; "the wretchedness for which these prisons became known"; "the grey wretchedness of the rain"

noun

the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry; "he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness"

Example sentences

1

If SO was meant to fix the wretchedness of forums . .

2

On the basis of your wretchedness." Sad, sad, sad, to live in such dismal times.

3

And as soon as AppCode, JetBrain's ObjC IDE, became stable enough to use all the time, I ran from the wretchedness that is Xcode.

4

> Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardships of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

5

Glad to hear him confirm what a lot of js devs are feeling right now with the wretchedness of the js callbacks, promises, and generators. there is a better way and im glad he is trying to do something about it.

6

But the default seems "the usual wretchedness, now in XR!" Further, the bottleneck is as much science side as education side, and there's little recognition or effort to address that.

7

The US companies are disgusting, but it's a far cry from the wretchedness of the legislators that are proposing the laws whispered in their ears.

8

Then years after you were dead people still might be reading it and laughing at you and your wretchedness and your absurdity. Writers and people who had command of words were respected and feared as people who manipulated magic.

9

This invites the question of how much wretched usage it takes for the usage to overcome its wretchedness, "irregardless" of efforts to stem the fell tide.

10

Or alternately, that they're all shambling toxic wretchedness, but you choose the one which seems likely to poison the customer the least, cooking it as well as circumstances permit. Cockroach popcorn and fried millipedes can be tasty.

11

In fact I used the wretchedness of existing dating sites as an example of an opportunity for startups in a couple early essays on startups.

12

I'm all for raising standards but I think there's a huge continent of politician who exist only to be bad guys, & some large large amount of people seem to love them for their wretchedness.

13

> Complaints about perceived wretchedness of contemporary art? What a Philistine.

14

*" I thought "a place of utter misery and wretchedness" would be pretty accurate for just about anybody participating in a battle, regardless of side. I never got any closer than training, and even that sucked quite badly.

15

I simply object to the casual usage of a neutral but racially-sensitive term as a blanket adjective for criminality and wretchedness. Ghetto, in its appropriate usage, isn't a slang term.

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And let's go from a non-enforced dejure wretchedness to a defacto enforced wretchedness! The only 3rd party non-Google app/package manager I know of being used on Android is Debian, and it definitely doesn't have an app store or payment gateway for in app.

17

Our program offers a network of fellow travelers who aspire to cultivate skillful means of helping people whose relations with themselves and others have become an occasion of wretchedness and despair." It's impossible to describe if you haven't been in such a state and don't know where to go.

18

By your logic, a man with a broken finger isn't allowed to complain if a man with a broken leg exists, and that man isn't allowed to complain if a paraplegic exists, and so on down the oneupsmanship scale of wretchedness. Where, exactly, is the cutoff point beyond which we're no longer allowed to care about human misery?

19

A uniformity of wretchedness. Useful for student opportunity and mobility, but, sigh.

20

To many youths just logging on, his words were electrifying—a rallying cry to keep the new medium a pristine Eden, an unsoiled frontier free of the wretchedness of “meatspace”: governmental and commercial interests. It began: "Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind.

21

Complaints about perceived wretchedness of contemporary art? Anxieties about criminality as a missed harbinger of social catastrophe?

22

I think it would be interesting to note how many of you find this an objectionable mindset because of its self-destructiveness, compared to how many of you find it objectionable because you simply cannot stand to be reminded of the wretchedness this world is capable of. It's the difference between volunteering at a soup kitchen, and recommending the installation of those anti-homeless spikes at your building entrance.

23

Dickens wrote over a hundred years ago that alcoholism was the result of misery and wretchedness and not the other way around. > Gin-drinking is a great vice in England, but wretchedness and dirt are a greater; and until you improve the homes of the poor, or persuade a half-famished wretch not to seek relief in the temporary oblivion of his own misery, with the pittance which, divided among his family, would furnish a morsel of bread for each, gin-shops will increase in number and splendour.

24

A right to content which reflects current insight and understanding of the physical world, not "it's traditional to teach it this way" wretchedness. Consider a dedicated professional teacher, in a hypothetical country, whose education system is focused on call-and-response rote memorize-and-regurgitate, who argues the implausibility of teaching US-style intro-physics problem solving.

25

-- [1] sadness, loneliness, melancholy, grief, masochism and so on through all the variations such as agony; angst; anguish; anxiety; apprehension; bereavement; bleakness; crestfallen; deflated; dejected; depression; desolation; despondency; disappointment; disconcerted; disconsolate; discontented; discouraged; disenchanted; disillusioned; displeased; disquiet; dissatisfied; distress; dismay; downhearted; dreariness; edginess; fear; fed-up; flustered; foreboding; fretfulness; frustrated; gloominess; glum; grief; heartache; horror; lament; melancholic; miserable; misery; morose; mourning; nervousness; panic; perturbed; regret; sad; sadness; sorrow; sorrowfulness; suffering; tenseness; terror; thwarted; torment; trepidation; troubled; uneasiness; upset; woe; worry; wretchedness

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use wretchedness in a sentence?

If SO was meant to fix the wretchedness of forums . .

What does wretchedness mean?

a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"

What part of speech is wretchedness?

wretchedness is commonly used as noun.