This has earned it praise from the World Bank but wretched poverty in the rural areas.

Fox said that 40 million Mexicans live in the most wretched poverty.

Its homeless population is small, and wretched poverty is virtually unknown.

Late nights, crowded rooms, cheap theatrical lodgings-and then, of course, the wretched poverty.

The Cow Woman, published in 1919, described a mother whose soul could not rest after her death, because her son was left in wretched poverty.

Tye evokes the wretched poverty and second-class-citizen status endured even by the stars of the Negro leagues.

Tough and tender mother Maggie, one of the great stage roles for women, just about holds together her unruly brood against wretched poverty.

However, the article also notes that, despite almost a decade of well-intentioned development policies, Ethiopians remain mired in the most wretched poverty.

The Qasims lived in wretched poverty, relying on rations for food and clothes.

I see the trash, pollution, strip malls and unspeakably wretched poverty.