wretchedness

noun

Definition of wretchednessnext
1
as in misery

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2
as in baseness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wretchedness
  1. misery
  2. destitution
  3. poverty
  4. woe
  5. penury
  6. criminality
  7. indigence
  8. necessity
Noun
  • While there are notable and beautiful bright spots to All or Nothing (most of which go to infallible Leigh regular Ruth Sheen), the film really doubles down on the ambient misery of these people’s lives.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Adults explain little to her—the possibility of death lies beyond her field of vision—which gives the vivid misery of her treatment a fairy-tale quality.
    Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of misery
Noun
  • Beth has only one season to land a husband who will ensure that her family can avoid certain destitution.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Thanks in part to regular double-digit levels of growth in the decades that followed economic liberalization — plus the very recent memory of total destitution — China’s population not too long ago was one of the most optimistic in the world.
    Bryan Walsh, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Definition of destitution
Noun
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation researchers reported in 2018 that while causes of stress for young people include poverty, trauma and discrimination, another is an excessive pressure to excel.
    Max Kutner, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Dec. 2024
  • To be eligible, patients must have income at or below four times the federal poverty level or have medical debt equal to 5% or more of their income.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of poverty
Noun
  • But perhaps the most noticeable concern isn't a winter woe at all.
    Alexandria Burris, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Dec. 2024
  • The revenue outlook for the first quarter and full year of fiscal 2026 are likely to prove the next major catalyst for the stock, determining how significantly the company can capitalize on recent woes at rival CrowdStrike.
    TipRanks.com Staff, CNBC, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of woe
Noun
  • Anderson renders her character’s slow descent into virtual penury and laudanum addiction a genuinely heartrending experience, and her late-in-the-film breakdown about her uselessness stands as one of the decade’s great acting feats.
    IndieWire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
  • There’s a growing number of technocrats, business leaders and academics who see the current crisis in Gaza as the opportunity to confront the risk of Haredim pulling the country toward theocratic penury.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2024
Definition of penury
Noun
  • Much of the reason for this can be traced back to the dark web and the underground criminal marketplaces that trade within it, where all the tools required to open up this type of criminality are laid bare for anyone with the cryptocurrency to purchase it.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
  • And an already weary donor community sees risks in the growing militancy and criminality in the camps.
    Nasir Uddin, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2024
Definition of criminality
Noun
  • The ceaseless movement of staff around the world compounds this nebulous sensation of perpetual indigence.
    Nick Foulkes, theweek, 7 Nov. 2024
  • In its first three years, Bolsa Família cut extreme poverty by 15 percent, and by 2014, the percentage of Brazilians living in indigence had been slashed to less than three percent—a level the World Bank considers equivalent to eradication.
    Jonathan Tepperman, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2015
Definition of indigence
Noun
  • The president-elect also wavered on the necessity of detention facilities.
    Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Time and again, Israel has carried out unlawful, deadly attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure in places and under circumstances with no presence of Hamas nor any military necessity.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of necessity
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