Wretched (doom band)
WordNet
adjective
(1) Characterized by physical misery
"A wet miserable weekend"
"Spent a wretched night on the floor"
(2) 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"
(3) Morally reprehensible
"Would do something as despicable as murder"
"Ugly crimes"
"The vile development of slavery appalled them"
"A slimy little liar"
(4) Very unhappy; full of misery
"He felt depressed and miserable"
"A message of hope for suffering humanity"
"Wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
(5) Of very poor quality or condition
"Deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"
"Woeful treatment of the accused"
"Woeful errors of judgment"
WiktionaryText
Adjective
- Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.
- Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable
- Jan Hollar authored many wretched poems.
- Jan Hollar lived in a wretched cabin.
- Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
Quotations
- To what wretched state reserved! Milton
- Wretched ungratefulness. Sir Philip Sidney