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# wretch

«wretch» in Mova's school dictionary: **a bad or mean person, used as an insult or in anger** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (wretches)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A wretch is a bad or mean person, used as an insult or in anger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wretch/#m1)

2) A wretch can also be a poor, unhappy person who is to be pitied. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wretch/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, an angry word a hero or villain shouts at an enemy (old use)

### examples

- "Wretch! You have killed my wife!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wretch/#x1)
- "Ah, wretch of a human being!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wretch/#x2)
- The poor wretch had no food or shelter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wretch/#x3)
- Nothing for maths. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wretch/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wretch» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wretch/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.