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wretched [retch-id] Adjective 1. in poor or pitiful circumstances: a vast wretched slum 2. feeling very unhappy 3. of poor quality: the wretched state of the cabbages 4. Informal undesirable or displeasing: what a wretched muddle wretchedly adv
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wretched adjective 1. unfortunate, poor, sorry, hapless, pitiful, luckless, star-crossed, pitiable << OPPOSITE happy adjective 2. worthless, poor, sorry, miserable, pathetic, inferior, paltry, deplorable << OPPOSITE excellent Translations (inf) → maudit(e) (inf) (= damned); elend |
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Darcy, in wretched suspense, could only say something indistinctly of his concern, and observe her in compassionate silence. His master one day, pretending to be angry and shaking his stick at him, said, "You wretched little sluggard We came next day to Mazna, in so wretched a condition that we were not surprised at being hooted by the boys, but thought ourselves well used that they threw no stones at us. |
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