(click/touch triangles for details)
Definition
very badin various senses, including:
- unfortunate or miserable — as in "wretched prisoners sleeping on the cold floor"
- of poor quality — as in "wretched roads"
- morally bad — as in "The wretched woman stole his wallet."
- The children were taken into protective custody due to their wretched living conditions.
wretched = miserable
- She wrote a book about the wretched excess on Wall Street.
- The photograph showed poor people in a wretched village in East Africa.
- Does this mean we have to go the whole wretched way on foot again?Cornelia Funke -- Inkheart
- One or two tried to make friends with him, but he was too tired and too wretched to accept their advances.W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
- It was wretched weather; stormy and wet, stormy and wet; and mud, mud, mud, deep in all the streets.Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
- She did not mean to hide in the wardrobe, because she knew that would only set the others talking again about the whole wretched business.C.S. Lewis -- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- From the foldings of its robe, it brought two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable.Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol
- I never saw a man in so wretched a condition.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- I sat there numb with horror. Wretched with helplessness. And I listened as Rosemary told them she would prefer to inject herself. Then she did so. I didn't watch. I looked away.Lois Lowry -- The Giver
- It made him remember things, and he became so wretched that he was ill.T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
- Then Tirian rushed upon the wretched creature, picked it up by the scruff of the neck,C.S. Lewis -- The Last Battle
- "Yes, wretched we are, precious," he whined.J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Two Towers
- At this result Mr. Covey seemed to be highly pleased, both with the man and the wretched woman.Frederick Douglass -- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- ...the wretched boy was being sucked closer and closer towards the mouth of one of the great pipes that was dangling down into the river.Roald Dahl -- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
- Why, O why did I ever bring a wretched little hobbit on a treasure hunt!J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Hobbit
- O wretched countrymen!Virgil -- The Aeneid
- Miserable himself that he may render no other wretched, he ought to die.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- Hear him not; call on the names of William, Justine, Clerval, Elizabeth, my father, and of the wretched Victor, and thrust your sword into his heart.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- With new courage, therefore, I pressed on, and in two days arrived at a wretched hamlet on the seashore.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
wretched = very bad
wretched = unfortunate or miserable
wretched = miserable
wretched = miserable
wretched = miserable
wretched = unfortunate or miserable
wretched = unfortunate or miserable
wretched = miserable
wretched = miserable
wretched = miserable
wretched = bad
wretched = unfortunate and miserable
wretched = person of bad character
wretched = unfortunate
wretched = miserable
wretched = unfortunate
wretched = miserable
wretched = miserable
wretched = miserable
Search for other examples by interest
Interest — Source
General — Google News®General — Time® Magazine
General — Wikipedia®
Architecture — Google® books - Architecture
Business — Bloomberg®
Business — The Economist®
Classic Literature — Google® books - Classical Literature
Engineering — Google® books - Engineering
Engineering — Popular Mechanics®
Engineering — Discover Magazine®
Fine Arts & Music — Google® books - Art
History — Google® books - History
Human Behavior — Google® books - Psychology
Human Behavior — Psychology Today®
Law — FindLaw®
Law — Google® books - Law
Logic & Reasoning — Google® books - Reasoning
Medicine — Web MD®
Medicine — Google® books - Medicine
Nature & Ecology — National Geographic®
Nature & Ecology — Google® books - Nature
Personal Finance — Kiplinger® (Personal Finance)
Philosophy — Google® books - Philosophy
Public Policy & Politics — Newsweek®
Public Policy & Politics — Real Clear Politics®
Public Policy & Politics — Google® books - Politics
Religion & Spirtuality — Google® books - Religion
Religion - Christianity — Bible Gateway®
Religion - Christianity — Google® books - Christianity
Science — Popular Science®
Science — Scientific American®
Science — Google® books - Science
Sports — Sports Illustrated®