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The phrase "a wretched situation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a very unfortunate or miserable circumstance.
Example: "After losing his job and facing mounting debts, he found himself in a wretched situation."
Alternatives: "a dire predicament" or "a miserable state".
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There is always someone in a wretched situation who seizes the opportunity, through ideology, to avenge himself, to emerge from his misery and to rectify his life.
If there be not, we are in a wretched situation.
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It's a wretched, miserable situation, and you don't know which way is up.
That leaves him in a wretched position.
It used to be a wretched place, submerged by undergrowth and with a looted, derelict museum.
"It would help a lot," said Kurth, "if the federal ministry of agriculture would initiate a debate on the wretched situation". A number of small German towns already advocate the compulsory neutering of stray cats, including Paderborn in North Rhine-Westphalia, which was home to 40,000 stray cats before it introduced forced castration three years ago.
Despite their wretched situation, they are forced to work together.
How do I transition from a wretched job to a place I might like better?
A wretched sinner".
WHAT a wretched week.
What a wretched mess.
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