Sentence examples for wretched about from inspiring English sources

I didn't get that job and felt wretched about it.

The previous day, the U.K. had voted to withdraw from the E.U., and Steele was feeling wretched about it.

He told the callers that he felt wretched about signing the pledge and then reneging on it.

So I cycled off feeling wretched about myself as a father, and then left the theatre early, feeling like a terrible boss.

Those driving runs from Touré are a formidable sight, but there was something fairly wretched about the way Johnson simply retreated, backing away until Touré was in the penalty area and choosing where to put his shot.

I often over-promise and under deliver and feel wretched about it.

And some black men had made really wretched statements about me, so there was all this controversy going on that I was trying to stay out of.

The ancient rabbis suggest that you ask a potential convert, "Are you not aware that today the people of Israel are wretched, driven about, exiled and in constant suffering?" It's a rhetorical question.

Morris, still wealthy with Mimi's ransom money, finds ways to entice Kwame into his life, and although Morris abhors his father's hatred of homosexuals, he is also unable not to think similarly wretched things about them.

"Every single time we hear some other wretched excuse about why we can't do X, Y or Z, we should say it's just inexcusable … As a society we should be saying that this is not on.

Vaunting his own obscure novels and commingling his wretched blather about reality and appearances with the refined aperçus of poor Benjamin, who deserves to rest in peace, Henric proceeds to drop more august names in a few pages (Rimbaud, Joyce, Baudelaire, Artaud, Genet, Kafka, Proust, Céline, Lacan, and the indispensable Bataille) than there are drunks in a phone booth.