1
as in misery
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2
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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Education means an end to hunger and an end to poverty.—
UNICEF USA,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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Experts say such migrants were escaping political unrest, gang violence, weather disasters caused by climate change and extreme poverty.—
Russell Contreras,
Axios,
13 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Horn, though, believes the front office and coaching staff are dead-set on fixing those woes.—
Mike Kaye,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Mar. 2025
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Southwest’s woes hit Orlando hard SpaceX Crew-10 docks with space station, setting up Starliner astronauts return Could Rays move to Orlando?—
Elainie Barraza,
Orlando Sentinel,
16 Mar. 2025
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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 22 Mar. 2025.
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