Wretched - definition, pronunciation, transcription
adjective
- characterized by physical misery (syn: miserable)
- deserving or inciting pity (syn: hapless, miserable, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor)
Extra examples
The slums were filled with poor, wretched children.
I don't know what's wrong with her, but she looks wretched.
How did we get into this wretched state of affairs?
What a wretched performance that was.
That movie was positively wretched.
Guy felt wretched about it now.
Where is that wretched boy?
I was shocked to see their wretched living conditions.
...had spent most of her adulthood trying to black out memories of a wretched childhood...
...a frowsy family living in wretched poverty...
...those wretched mendicants on the streets of Calcutta...
...profaned his considerable acting talents by appearing in some wretched movies...
...a drunken profligate, he was given to wretched excess in every aspect of his life...
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