wretchedness

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A state of prolonged misfortune, privation, or anguish
An unhappy state of mental or physical suffering

She saw only that he was quiet and unobtrusive, and she liked him for it. He did not disturb the wretchedness of her mind by ill-timed conversation.

extreme misery or unhappiness
{n} misery, distress, despicableness
{i} misery, woefulness, poverty; contemptibleness, meanness
A state of prolonged misfortune, privation or anguish
a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"
The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery
A wretched object; anything despicably
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Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked
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Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable

All those wretched quarrels, in his humble opinion, stirring up bad blood, from some bump of combativeness or gland of some kind, erroneously supposed to be about a punctilio of honour and a flag,.

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{a} miserable, worthless, despicable, vile
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feelings You use wretched to describe someone or something that you dislike or feel angry with. Wretched woman, he thought, why the hell can't she wait?
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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
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deserving or inciting pity; "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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characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"
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Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin
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{s} sorry, poor, pitiable; miserable; contemptible; base, vile
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very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
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Someone who feels wretched feels very unhappy. I feel really confused and wretched = miserable
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of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
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You describe someone as wretched when you feel sorry for them because they are in an unpleasant situation or have suffered unpleasant experiences. You have built up a huge property empire by buying from wretched people who had to sell or starve
wretchedness

    Hyphenation

    wretch·ed·ness

    Pronunciation

    Etymology

    [ 're-ch&d ] (adjective.) 12th century. wretched +‎ -ness
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