1
as in misery
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as in baseness
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wretchedness
Noun
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That system, Fritz Alphonse Jean said, has fueled immense misery and social inequalities as well as the current gang violence that has a desperate population urgently calling for help.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
8 Mar. 2025 -
Indian spiritual leader and environmental campaigner Sadhguru has spoken to Newsweek about the nation's mental health, offering his secret to achieving a good state of mind by choosing joy or misery.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
2 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Can this power be guided with care, augmenting the light alongside economic destitution?—
John Werner,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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Africa need not be seen as a site of destitution and need.—
Nnimmo Bassey,
Foreign Affairs,
17 Feb. 2022
Noun
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At the last minute, a relative rode to the rescue—as, later, did a wealthy aunt, who plucked him out of poverty and sent him to private school.—
Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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Critics of such spending of U.S. tax dollars say Americans can’t take care of the world when the nation has so many homegrown issues to deal with, such as poverty and homelessness, the border and fentanyl crisis, violent crime and more.—
Therese Boudreaux | The Center Square,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
2 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Adding to woes are issues with transporting coal via rail and the Russian central bank's record high key interest rate of 21 percent aimed at curbing soaring inflation of 9.5 percent.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
4 Mar. 2025
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At recent school board meetings, Keller officials have partly blamed the district’s financial woes on declining enrollment, which has resulted in less state funding.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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That would help ensure that our longer lives are not feared as a time of pain, penury or purposelessness, but as a treasured gift of years.—
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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One of Thompson’s signature innovations was to use a predictive algorithm to kick ailing and disabled Medicare patients out of nursing homes and rehabilitative programs, causing untold misery and penury.—
Jessica Winter,
The New Yorker,
13 Dec. 2024
Noun
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An investigation is ongoing, but criminality is not suspected in her death, per police.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
27 Feb. 2025
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During the hearing, a state prosecutor, Michael Grillo, told the judge that the government had more evidence of criminality than the facts included in the indictment.—
Tracey Tully,
New York Times,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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His legal team also filed a separate motion requesting a public defender be assigned to his case, citing indigence.—
Jessica Sager,
People.com,
8 Mar. 2025
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The ceaseless movement of staff around the world compounds this nebulous sensation of perpetual indigence.—
Nick Foulkes,
theweek,
7 Nov. 2024
Noun
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This isn't the Top Chef of yore, where tweezers and microgreens were a necessity.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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But before that conversion can be added to the list of Republican attitude adjustments, there is one necessity: the tariffs have to work.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
13 Mar. 2025
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“Wretchedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wretchedness. Accessed 17 Mar. 2025.
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