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Wretch"ed, a. 1. Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting. “To what wretched state reserved!” Milton.
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O cruel! Death! to those you are more kind
Than to the wretched mortals left behind. Waller.
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2. Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.
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3. Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked. [Obs.] “Wretched ungratefulness.” Sir P. Sidney.
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Nero reigned after this Claudius, of all men wretchedest, ready to all manner [of] vices. Capgrave.
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