Crossword-Solution: WRETCHES 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with WRETCHES (5)

Except for that small expenditure in the decoration of her infant, Hester bestowed all her superfluous means in charity, on wretches less miserable than herself, and who not unfrequently insulted the hand that fed them.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Grospierre was a bit drunk, but he thought himself very clever; he looked into the casks—most of them, at least—and saw they were empty, and let the cart go through.” A murmur of wrath and contempt went round the group of ill-clad wretches, who crowded round Citoyen Bibot.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
The air was filled with groans and clashing of arms—the floors were slippery with the blood of despairing and expiring wretches.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
The beasts, uncontrolled by Tarzan who had gone in search of Jane, loosed the full fury of their savage natures upon the unhappy wretches who fell into their clutches.
The Beasts of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
But, few cared enough for that to think of it a second time, and, in this matter, as in all others, the common wretches were left to get out of their difficulties as they could.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994

Quotes with WRETCHES (3)

God help me, he thought. God help all us poor wretches who could create and find we must lose our hearts for it because we cannot afford to spend our time at it. (“Mad House”)
Richard Matheson Collected Stories, Vol. 1
Your haughty religious people would have held their heads up to see me as I am tonight, and preached of flames and vengeance,' cried the girl. 'Oh, dear lady, why ar'n't those who claim to be God's own folks as gentle and as kind to us poor wretches as you, who, having youth, and beauty, and all that they have lost, might be a little proud instead of so much humbler?
Charles Dickens Oliver Twist
And be very careful at the front, Paul.” Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die with you. What poor wretches we are!
Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front
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Appears in: NYT, WP.

Used 2 times in crossword archives (2015–2024).