Sentence examples for wretched bid from inspiring English sources

The new film, in which he exports his skills to Moscow, could be taken as a wretched bid to revive a flagging trope, but might it not simply be that, back home, he has run out of people to whack?

Horimer bid the Tree farewell and continued through the wretched forest.

Tells about a newly organized U.D.C.A. branch in Paris which temporarily broke up the bidding at the Hotel Drouot's state auction rooms on some wretched bankrupt shopkeepers' worldly goods.

And they were wretched.

O wretched state!

Beeber was wretched.

Conditions are wretched.

"I feel absolutely wretched.

They are wretched birds.

A wretched sinner".

WHAT a wretched week.