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adjective

Wretched adj.

Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting. "To what wretched state reserved!" "O cruel! Death! to those you are more kind Than to the wretched mortals left behind."

Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.

Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked. (Obs.) "Wretched ungratefulness." "Nero reigned after this Claudius, of all men wretchedest, ready to all manner (of) vices."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Wretched" Quotes from Famous Books

... have been of low character at any rate. Elizabeth had admitted illicit amours, and Elleine may very well have been guilty on the same count.[11] All of the women involved in the two trials were in circumstances of wretched poverty; most, if not all, of them were dependent upon begging and ...

— A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 • Wallace Notestein

... miserably, sorrowfully, and vncomfortably, all alone, who shal bee a woorthie successour of so precious a gemme? And who shal be the possor of such a treasure of so inestimable valure? And what faire heauen shal shew so cleare a light? Oh most wretched Poliphilus, whether dost thou go vnfortunate? whether dost thou hasten thy steppes? hopest thou euer to behold againe any desired good? Behould all thy gratious conceits and pleasant highe delyghtes builded in thy apprehensiue thoughtes, through the sweetenes of loue, are deadly shaken, and abruptlie ...

— Hypnerotomachia - The Strife of Loue in a Dreame • Francesco Colonna

... tack out, all that could be done was to let go the anchor to save running ashore, and wait until they sent out a small boat to fetch us. This took some little time during which we pitched and tossed about in a very disagreeable fashion. When the boat did at last arrive she turned out to be a wretched little skiff, rowed by two men, with very indifferent oars, and only capable of taking three passengers at a time. Tom went first, taking with him the two children, and the two poor sea-sick maids, and the ...

— A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' • Annie Allnut Brassey

... jelly or complete change and rest for six months. I might as well order my people a slice of the moon. And the worst of it is, I'm too poor to keep well myself on the cooking I have to put up with. Ive such a wretched digestion; and I look it. How am I to inspire confidence? [He sits disconsolately on ...

— The Doctor's Dilemma • George Bernard Shaw

... ten thousand years ago you went from this horrible forest down to that wretched village yonder, to those huts that make your London, you went to buy you ...

— To Have and To Hold • Mary Johnston

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