- (a.) Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
- (a.) Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.
- (a.) Very miserable; sunk in or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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