In English, many things are named after a particular country – but have you ever wondered what those things are called in those countries?
1(abject, pitiable)(creature/existence) desdichado(creature/existence) desgraciadothey live in wretched poverty — viven en la más absoluta miseria
- He begs for food and wears only a loincloth and a cloak, shunning the townspeople and becoming a wretched figure with unkempt hair and long fingernails.
- When these wretched people arrived at Grosse Ile it was ill-equipped to deal with such a humanitarian disaster.
- Needless to say, Zinfer's very first day on Planet Earth had turned out to be an unbelievably wretched experience for the poor little prince.
- A just man maintains his life as a wretched beggar while another, stained by well known crimes, accumulates the highest honours.
- Have not the rich been guilty of ignoring the cry of the wretched and the poor in this little world we share?
- The only glimmer of hope for these wretched people is the emergence of organised resistance to the present policies.
- A fanatic easily makes conquests among a wretched people.
- The poor wretched beast was tied up on a rope that was too short to let him lie down.
- Pentheus tore away his headband from his hair, and ripped the feminine disguise from his frame that his wretched mother might recognize him!
- But he doesn't make you think that the people were a poor, wretched mass of unwashed humanity.
- I have also still got the flu to some extent, and I am feeling slightly less than wretched, but I was wretched as recently as yesterday.
- Her eyes had widened considerably upon taking in the sight the wretched man, and she feared she might be sick from looking at his numerous injuries.
- Harry's wretched past revisits him vividly, trailing behind it issues of betrayal, death, punishment and revenge.
- Younger brother Prince Khurram promptly had him killed, as fraternal ambitions were not to be encouraged, even though the wretched Prince Khusrau was blind.
- I must have cut a wretched figure, filthy and sunburnt, to the brother who heard my explanations about who I was and why I was here.
- He was taken aback by the sheer number of places they had found containing such wretched people.
- The role of A Vijayaraghavan, MP, was significant in securing Indian citizenship for these wretched people.
- The man was poor and wretched and had no claim upon the ruler, no right even to lift a solicitous hand.
- Although they were all being tenderly cared for by wonderful nurses, with plenty of personal attention and attempts to comfort and stimulate them, they were absolutely wretched.
- You aren't the complicated villain nor the wretched hero.
2coloquial(very bad)(weather) horrible(weather) espantosoto feel wretched — sentirse muy mal
- what wretched luck! — ¡qué perra suerte!
- I can't get this wretched knot undone — no puedo desatar este condenado / maldito nudo
- be quiet, (you) wretched child! — ¡cállate de una vez, condenado!
- I plopped onto the couch and that wretched dog hopped up next to me and began to bark.
- They can be put through wretched working conditions without a chance of redress.
- Alvarez and Marx watched as bright orange columns of flame rained down upon the wretched tangle of vines and smoke started to trail up behind them.
- He has bred 300,000 of the four legged creatures and is hoping they will eat enough of the wretched insects to mark an improvement.
- Hundreds waited in line, even in the day's wretched weather, to try and register their willingness to help.
- Eventually, the robbers left the bank with nothing more than their very queasy stomachs after having eaten a number of bowls of this wretched vanilla pudding.
- They lived in tenements and shanties of poor repair with wretched sanitary conditions.
- Workers and their families continued living in wretched conditions in the shadows of the buildings they had made.
- I lost out to a friend who ate seven of the wretched things.
- It's a good exercise for me, because the quality of the campaign so far has been so wretched, it means I might learn something about them, and even make my mind up as to who to vote for.
- In fact, people in the developing world have become relatively poorer and more wretched.
- He is wretched, weak, ugly, inspiring contempt and disgust in not only all the supposedly good-hearted characters but also the reader.
- His son, Seebohm, had done more than anyone to expose the wretched living conditions of the poor in his 1901 treatise on the slums of York.
- But he could see traces of his own face, and some of that wretched girl's, in the young man's portrait.
- He lived among coal miners for a time to experience the wretched conditions of the underclass during that era.
- I fear the worst is yet to come, for now she has brought Father into the wretched business.
- Her father is a great king but a wretched parent.
- With that wretched season behind him, Wilson is now looking ahead to 2006 with renewed enthusiasm.
- Under these wretched conditions families are being started and children reared.
- If they can't get their stories straight in this wretched business then how can they be expected to lead Scottish rugby out of the spectacular mess it has now become?
- They are wretched at dealing with anyone who applies their own principles better than they do because this pulls the moral high ground out from under them.
- After all, there's nothing particularly joyful about me when I eventually do get around to the whole wretched business.
- The weather was of a wretched description, raining practically all day.
- I don't care how much your precious Princess likes the wretched beast - if it comes near this castle, it will be killed.
- Though the surroundings are far from pleasant they are not wretched.
- Herb-roasted chicken was made for this wretched weather, and the jus surrounding it is soppingly worth at least half a loaf.
- The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music ‘except country.’
- Her crime was to provide a false alibi for her wretched lover.
- However, the putrid coffee poured out of industrial Thermoses made me feel like I had just attended some sort of wretched business conference.
- Desperately poor health conditions are distributed with a wretched evenness across the land.
- It takes a special individual to perform those kinds of duties under such wretched conditions.
- Lawyers tend to be wretched writers, which is odd given that the written word is their stock in trade.
- It is true that the wretched weather has left them short of match practice and there is little cricket over the next few days in which to get their rhythm back.
- But then he reveals that their wretched father recently paid a visit.
- The development will be seen as evidence of the wretched luck which has dogged the Holyrood project.
- But most of them live in places where housing conditions are wretched and public services inadequate.
- It was clear from the outset that fast and flowing rugby would be impossible because of the wretched conditions.
- The submariners say it was only the comradeship which enabled crews to endure the wretched conditions.
- Three times the tie has been called off by wretched weather, but all the signs indicate the game at Netherfield Road will at last be played tonight at the fourth time of asking.
- Like a Pavlov dog I've been trained to associate this wretched comedy with bad odours, and for better or for worse, this sorry experience will never be repeated.
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