wretchedness Betydning & definition

Eksempler på wretchedness

• Then the prisoners begin to feel the wretchedness of their condition.

• All loves of after life can never bring its rapture, or its wretchedness; no bliss so absorbing, no pangs of jealousy or despair so crushing and so keen!

• A countenance so emaciated, so expressive of utter, hopeless wretchedness she had never hitherto beheld, yet there was something silly and almost idiotic in the eye, painful to look on.

• As we all know, we have been suffering from a freeze-up, and from many inconveniences and much wretchedness, following upon the shortage of fuel.

• That has been the main cause of the wretchedness of all our tenement buildings.

• I have seen them disappointed when food does not arrive because of the wretchedness of communications.

• It was overcrowded and full of intense poverty and wretchedness.

• They will be asking why industrial progress involves them in greater wretchedness.