Category: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. Waller. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. ..

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. Capgrave.