All 5 Uses of
wretched
in
The Secret Garden
- I am too ill, and wretched and distracted; but I wish you to be happy and comfortable.†
p. 103.3 *wretched = miserable or very bad
- My mother died when I was born and it makes him wretched to look at me.†
p. 111.6
- So long as Mistress Mary's mind was full of disagreeable thoughts about her dislikes and sour opinions of people and her determination not to be pleased by or interested in anything, she was a yellow-faced, sickly, bored and wretched child.†
p. 247.9
- He had refused to see it, and when he had gone to look at it at last it had been such a weak wretched thing that everyone had been sure it would die in a few days.†
p. 254.2
- If he had not been under the spell of the curious calmness which had taken possession of him he would have been more wretched than ever.†
p. 255.2
Definition:
very bad
in 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."