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wretched::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful |
| Derivation | wretchedness |
wretched::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | miserable |
| Derivation | wretchedness |
spent a wretched night on the floor.
Examples of wretched
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Lincecum turned the page on a wretched August that saw him lose all five starts.
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They suffered physically in this wretched city, the last bastion before Siberia.
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The best designs inspire golfers to keep playing this wonderfully wretched game.
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All too often, the average individual lived in unimaginably wretched conditions.
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After eight wretched years, the boy managed to escape to his original community.
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But I just feel so wretched and helpless when that 10 percent of badness occurs.
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The IQ scientists, at their worst, force their wretched notions to become facts.
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Just look at how the Lions struggled to hold off the wretched Vikings on Sunday.
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Not the way Oliver Stone's tells it, as a display of pop fame's wretched excess.
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- Deplorable: of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
- Miserable: characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"
- Miserable: very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
- Despicable: morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"
- Hapless: 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"
- (wretchedly) in a wretched manner; "`I can't remember who I am,' I said, wretchedly"
- (wretchedness) misery: a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"
- (wretchedness) the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant; "the wretchedness for which these prisons became known"; "the grey wretchedness of the rain"
- (wretch) performs some wicked deed
