Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or condition of a suffering wretch; a wretched or distressful state of being; great misery or affliction.
- noun Wretched character or quality; distressing, reprehensible, or despicable nature; aggravated or aggravating badness of any kind.
- noun That which is wretched or distressingly bad; wretched material, conduct, or the like; anything contemptible or despicable; wretched stuff.
- noun =Syn.1. Affliction, Grief, Sorrow, etc. See
affliction .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery.
- noun obsolete A wretched object; anything despicably.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
unhappy state ofmental orphysical suffering . - noun A state of
prolonged misfortune ,privation , oranguish .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry
- noun a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
- noun the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant
Etymologies
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Examples
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Cursed, cursed be the fiend that brought misery on his grey hairs, and doomed him to waste in wretchedness!
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Cursed, cursed be the fiend that brought misery on his grey hairs, and doomed him to waste in wretchedness!
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They try so hard to please their parents and even harder to understand them, and their resulting wretchedness is one of the most haunting subplots of the novel.
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They try so hard to please their parents and even harder to understand them, and their resulting wretchedness is one of the most haunting subplots of the novel.
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What was it specially that he called wretchedness?
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I shall not close this, till I have seen or heard from the vile miscreant who has involved a worthy family in wretchedness!
The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact
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It is of course self-evident that poverty should not degenerate into wretchedness, which is no less an abundant source of moral dangers than is excessive wealth.
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How many old labourers, old operatives, or miners are now left to recall the wretchedness of that toiling and starving childhood before the corn-tax was removed?
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By such an estimate, nearly the whole number are accounted for by wretchedness, that is by economic causes, alone
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society
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My first knowledge of their wretchedness was a thing which sank deep.
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