01 a. Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.
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Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.“O cruel Death! to those you are more kind Than to the wretched mortals left behind.” — Waller.
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Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.
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Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.[Obs.]“Nero reigned after this Claudius, of all men wretchedest, ready to all manner [of] vices.” — Capgrave.