wretch

• Was it a forewarning that the wretch was about to meddle in his affairs again? —  May, Julian - Boreal Moon 2 - Ironcrown Moon
• A still more intemperate message reached him, declaring that "Butler should be dragged to death from his tent -- that to defend such a wretch was an insult to humanity." —  The Life of Francis Marion
• Once or twice, in desperation, he moved, but the wretch was as good as his word, and the point of his knife was dug into his legs and arms until his clothes were covered with blood After half-an-hour of this Abdu seemed to have had enough of the pastime, and with a sneering laugh removed the chain, and then returned to his companions at the end of the car Helmar all this time had not uttered one word. —  Under the Rebel's Reign
• But the wretch was as adamant, he laughed and jeered at my sympathy with the poor creatures, and--as much, I believe, to annoy me as for any other reason--persistently refused to give the order, declaring that, since they would receive many a sound flogging when they got ashore--if indeed they ever lived to reach it--it was just as well that they should learn to endure the lash at once. —  The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast
• I was described as a wretch, whose nose must be kept to the grinding stone--and it was held there with an iron grasp. —  Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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