WRETCHED, a.
1. Very miserable sunk into deep affliction or distress, either from want, anxiety or grief.
The wretched find no friends.
2. Calamitous very afflicting as the wretched condition of slaves in Algiers.
3. Worthless paltry very poor or mean as a wretched poem a wretched cabin.
4. Despicable hatefully vile and contemptible. He was guilty of wretched ingratitude.
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