The word 'wretchedness' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a feeling of extreme misery or unhappiness. For example, "The wretchedness of her situation was unbearable."
Whitechapel as he saw it was a thriving, prosperous place, with its wide, busy, well-lit central artery, and all the wretchedness and squalor were buried in contiguous courts.
None of this everyday wretchedness fits what we have come to think of as a slump; yet this is the shape of the one we are grinding our way through.
Raising people above that level of wretchedness is not a sufficient ambition for a prosperous planet, but it is a necessary one.The world's achievement in the field of poverty reduction is, by almost any measure, impressive.
The legacy of this wretchedness is the powerful third force of Belarusian politics.The nature of this force is captured by many of the jokes Belarusians tell about themselves.
(This was a clear reference to Abbé Sieyès's quote from a French revolutionary pamphlet, "What is the Third Estate?")The term "Third World" was largely misunderstood from the start as referring to non-aligned states, when its purpose was to underline the importance of underdeveloped countries, the wretchedness of their condition and the unavoidable ascent that would ensue.
Belarus's plight makes even the heavily managed democracy in its eastern neighbour, Russia, seem lively.And the wretchedness of Belarus continues to cast doubt on whether its proposed merger with Russia will ever take place.
Out of sight are pockets of wretchedness similar to slums in developing countries such as India.
Omprakash Valmiki, whose Hindi autobiography, "Joothan: A Dalit's Life", has been translated into English, read poems about the routine wretchedness of the lives of poor Indians.
Wealth may be unevenly spread, so that a high average disguises widespread wretchedness.
Most impressive are Dix's etchings and the sketches on postcards which he sent from the front.For Grosz and Dix the post-war years offered no respite, only another kind of nastiness a world of wretchedness, debauchery and profiteers.
Underlying mood: despair at the wretchedness of the Arab condition.
