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Webster 1913 Edition
Wretched
Wretch′ed
,Adj.
1.
Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.
“To what wretched state reserved!” Milton.
O cruel! Death! to those you are more kind
Than to the
The Than to the
wretched
mortals left behind. Waller.
wretched
refuse of your teeming shore . . . –>2.
Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable;
as, a
. wretched
poem; a wretched
cabin3.
Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
[Obs.]
“Wretched ungratefulness.” Sir P. Sidney.
Nero reigned after this Claudius, of all men
wretchedest
, ready to all manner [of] vices. Capgrave.
Webster 1828 Edition
Wretched
WRETCHED
,Adj.
1.
Very miserable; sunk into deep affliction or distress, either from want, anxiety or grief.The wretched find no friends.
2.
Calamitous; very afflicting; as the wretched condition of slaves in Algiers.3.
Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; as a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.4.
Despicable; hatefully vile and contemptible. He was guilty of wretched ingratitude.