1 In spite of those strange words he felt very wretched.
2 The tavern was dirty and wretched, not even second-rate.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER III 3 Probably "taking his cue" from Luzhin, "that contemptible wretch Lebeziatnikov had not turned up either."
4 He is the father of the fatherless, he is merciful, he'll protect us, you'll see, and that wretch of a general.
5 A chorus of wretched singers and a drunken but exceedingly depressed German clown from Munich with a red nose entertained the public.
6 Each thought that he alone had the truth and was wretched looking at the others, beat himself on the breast, wept, and wrung his hands.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 7 And only then were you comforted, and for the next twenty-four hours you held the wretched thing in your hand; we could not get it from you.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 2: CHAPTER III 8 You see, honoured sir, these orphans of good family--I might even say of aristocratic connections--and that wretch of a general sat eating grouse.
9 You are a feeble, nervous wretch, and a mass of whims, you're getting fat and lazy and can't deny yourself anything--and I call that dirty because it leads one straight into the dirt.
10 The student chattered on, saying that she had a sister Lizaveta, whom the wretched little creature was continually beating, and kept in complete bondage like a small child, though Lizaveta was at least six feet high.
11 The party consisted of the Pole, a wretched looking clerk with a spotty face and a greasy coat, who had not a word to say for himself, and smelt abominably, a deaf and almost blind old man who had once been in the post office and who had been from immemorial ages maintained by someone at Amalia Ivanovna's.
12 Katerina Ivanovna was irritated too by the fact that hardly any of the lodgers invited had come to the funeral, except the Pole who had just managed to run into the cemetery, while to the memorial dinner the poorest and most insignificant of them had turned up, the wretched creatures, many of them not quite sober.