What is the meaning of wretched?

adjective

  • Of very poor quality or condition.
    • usage: "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
  • Characterized by physical misery.
    • usage: "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"
  • Very unhappy; full of misery.
    • usage: "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
  • Morally reprehensible.
    • usage: "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"
  • Deserving or inciting pity.
    • usage: "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 distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"
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