The wretches are people crushed, looked down, excluded by the society, they are real miserables.
en.wikipedia.org The fickle goddess treated her passing lovers cruelly, and the unhappy wretches usually paid dearly for the favours heaped on them.
en.wikipedia.org It is usually supposed to have been clemency, the humane desire not to reduce a poor wretch to absolute beggary.
en.wikipedia.org In the novel, the monster is identified via words such as creature, monster, fiend, wretch, vile insect, daemon, being, and it.
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