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Adjective
wretched
- Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.
- Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.
- obsolete Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
Translations
trans-top|Very miserable
Finnish: kurja, viheliäinen, surkea, onneton
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trans-top|Worthless
Finnish: kurja, pahainen, surkea
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trans-top|Hatefully contemptible
Finnish: riivattu
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Quotations
To what wretched state reserved! Milton
Wretched ungratefulness. Sir Philip Sidney
Derived terms
wretchedness
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