Synonyms for wretch
rɛtʃwretch

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1. wretchnoun

   performs some wicked deed

   Synonyms:
   poor devil

2. poor devil, wretchnoun

   someone you feel sorry for

   Synonyms:
   poor devil

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1. • Reprobate
   • Victim

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. wretchnoun

   Synonyms:
   pilgarlic, pariah, outcast, troglodyte, miserable person, unhappy person

2. wretchnoun

   Synonyms:
   miscreant, villain, knave, rogue, rascal, scoundrel, scapegrace, caitiff, ruffian

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1. wretchnoun

   Synonyms:
   outcast, pariah, pilgarlic, vagabond, knave, rogue, scoundrel, caitiff, miscreant, scapegrace, villain, rascal, renegade, reprobate, rake, scullion, poltroon, varlet, ronion, libertine, blackguard, cullion, bezonian

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1. List of paraphrases for "wretch":

   miserable, witch

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How to use wretch in a sentence?

1. William Shakespeare:

   Excellent wretch Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

2. William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3:

   Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

3. William Penn:

   If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch, indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.

4. Edmund Spenser:

   It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

5. Hannah More:

   The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.