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Discover Ludwig"wretched smile" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is often used to describe a forced attempted at cheerfulness or a very unconvincing smile. For example, "She put on a wretched smile in an effort to hide her disappointment."
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Everybody in this story is weak: Billy, the assistant, steals raptor eggs to make money, the Kirbys lie their way onto Isla Sorna in the first place, and even Grant — the incorruptible Dr. Grant, dean of dino scholarship, "the last of my breed" — gives an abashed and wretched smile as he agrees to visit the island and thus breaks an earlier pledge.
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Keep them out, however, and you force the baseball public to endure another year of speculation, another season of debate, and another round of these wretched drug-filled cheaters (allegedly, of course) smiling back at us on our TV sets (For Example, See: Rose, Pete).
Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz had earlier given a statement saying, "The smiles in Lausanne are detached from wretched reality in which Iran refuses to make any concessions on the nuclear issue and continues to threaten Israel and all other countries in the Middle East".
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.
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