All 5 Uses

wretched
in
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
(Edited)

He had been quite familiar with one old ghost, in a white waistcoat, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle, who cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, whom it saw below, upon a door-step.
p. 28.2

wretched = unfortunate or miserable
Topper had clearly got his eye upon one of Scrooge's niece's sisters, for he answered that a bachelor was a wretched outcast, who had no right to express an opinion on the subject.
p. 83.1

wretched = morally bad
From the foldings of its robe, it brought two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable.
p. 89.8 *

wretched = unfortunate or miserable
The ways were foul and narrow; the shops and houses wretched; the people half-naked, drunken, slipshod, ugly.
p. 98.8

wretched = of poor quality
Here, then; the wretched man whose name he had now to learn, lay underneath the ground.
p. 113.9

wretched = unfortunate

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