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- Dictionarywretched/ˈrɛtʃɪd/
adjective
- 1. (of a person) in a very unhappy or unfortunate state: "I felt so wretched because I thought I might never see you again" Similar Opposite
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1 day ago · t. e. The Ustaše ( pronounced [ûstaʃe] ), also known by anglicised versions Ustasha or Ustashe, [n 3] was a Croatian, fascist and ultranationalist organization [21] active, as one organization, between 1929 and 1945, formally known as the Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Movement ( Croatian: Ustaša – Hrvatski revolucionarni pokret ).
1 day ago · Maqama defined. When some literary scholars define the maqama genre, ... In this story, al-Iskandari is a wretched youth who is traveling with ibn Hisham, and both ...
5 days ago · Abstract Excerpted From: Grayson Carnahan, The Tempest Tossed-Aside: How Politicizing Immigration Policy Has Stalled Reform and Dehumanized Immigrants, 46 Houston Journal of International Law 73 (Fall, 2023) (149 Footnotes) (Full Document Requested) “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free; The wretched refuse of your...
4 days ago · In the moments afterward, Obi-Wan jokingly comments on just how "uncivilized" the entire ordeal had been. This has been a commonly occurring quote in the Star Wars fandom, especially with the rise in popularity of memes based on the Prequel Trilogy. "So uncivilized" has been one of many popular Obi-Wan Kenobi meme formats, often used to denote ...
2 days ago · Kittie Helmick. Like most millennials, I grew up reading Narnia and Harry Potter. The fantasy hero’s journey, popularised by Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), defined my literary imagination. After Rowling relieved us of suspense, and we said our last good-byes to Harry and his friends, I looked elsewhere for the ...
4 days ago · Tolstoy defined the purpose of education as the transmission of knowledge and skills from the teacher to the student: “…the activity of education comes to a close immediately upon having reached a point of equality in knowledge [between the student and the teacher]” (Tolstoy, 1967, p. 185). In this “self-evident truth,” as he put it ...
3 days ago · The “wretched refuse”, the downtrodden of the world, are not merely accepted because it’s the right thing to do, but because of the understanding that immigrants make communities better, richer, and more diverse in ways that strengthen us. Our door is not just cracked open to the “huddled masses”; rather, like the statue, we face ...
