what does wretched mean?
WRETCHED as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- characterized by physical misery
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- a wet miserable weekend
- spent a wretched night on the floor
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- Meaning
- deserving or inciting pity
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- a hapless victim
- miserable victims of war
- the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic- Galsworthy
- piteous appeals for help
- pitiable homeless children
- a pitiful fate
- Oh, you poor thing
- his poor d
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- Meaning
- very unhappy
- full of misery
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- he felt depressed and miserable
- a message of hope for suffering humanity
- wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages
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- of very poor quality or condition
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- deplorable housing conditions in the inner city
- woeful treatment of the accused
- woeful errors of judgment
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