Definition of Wretched

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Wretched

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; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.

Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.

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Wretched Quotations

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Plato

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Leonardo da Vinci

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
Blaise Pascal

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
Blaise Pascal

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Francis Bacon

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Andrew Carnegie

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
Eric Hoffer

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
John McCain

Wretched Translations

wretched in Dutch is belabberd, ellendig, miserabel
wretched in German is elend
wretched in Hungarian is boldogtalan, nyamvadt
wretched in Latin is miserabilis, miser
wretched in Spanish is infeliz
wretched in Swedish is usel, olycklig, miserabel

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