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. 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.
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