wretched

[wretch·ed]

The fairy tale Cinderella gives us many examples of uses for the word wretched. Poor Cinderella had a wretched childhood, living in wretched conditions with a wretched stepmother. It would be enough to make anyone feel wretched, or absolutely terrible.

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Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.

Adjective S.
characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"

Adjective S.
deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor d

Adjective S.
very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"

Adjective S.
of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"


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Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.

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

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Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.


Wretched

Wretch"ed, a. 1. 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!" Milton.
O cruel! Death! to those you are more kind Than to the wretched mortals left behind.
2. Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin. 3. Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked. [Obs.] "Wretched ungratefulness." Sir P. Sidney.
Nero reigned after this Claudius, of all men wretchedest, ready to all manner [of] vices.

Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.

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Usage Examples

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night.

Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Friendship's the privilege of private men for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

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Other Usage Examples

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

How sick one gets of being 'good,' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours embody selfishness.

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

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