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adj. In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable: "the wretched prisoners huddling in the stinking cages” ( George Orwell).

adj. Characterized by or attended with misery or woe: a wretched life.

adj. Of a poor or mean character; dismal: a wretched building.

adj. Contemptible; despicable: wretched treatment of the patients.

adj. Of very inferior quality: wretched prose.

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

adj. Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable

adj. Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.

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

adj. Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable.

adj. Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.

Suffering from or affected by extreme misery or distress; deeply afflicted; miserable; unhappy.

Characterized by or causing misery or unhappiness; very afflicting, annoying, or uncomfortable; distressingly bad in condition or relation: as, the wretched condition of a prison; wretched weather; a wretched prospect.

Of miserable character or quality; despicable; contemptible; reprehensible; strongly objectionable: used of persons or things: as, a wretched blunderer or quibbler; a wretched quibble; wretched stuff.

Worthless; paltry; very poor, mean, inefficient, unsatisfactory, unskilful, or the like: as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin; a wretched defense or piece of work.

=Syn.1. Forlorn, woebegone.

Vile, sorry, shabby, pitiful.

adj. morally reprehensible

adj. deserving or inciting pity

adj. of very poor quality or condition

adj. very unhappy; full of misery

adj. characterized by physical misery

"The boys hurrahed vociferously when they left what they called wretched little England; but subsequently Richard held that his having been educated abroad was an incalculable loss to him."

evil    unfortunate    inferior    unhappy    uncomfortable   

depressed    mean   

wretch   

wretchedness   

calamitous    woeful    worthless    paltry    miserable    despicable    wicked    mean    forlorn    unhappy   

miserable    poor    sad    stupid    lonely    dirty    helpless