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Definition of Wretched

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. Related Definitions: Accompanied, Afflicting, Affliction, Anxiety, As, By, Cabin, Calamitous, Contemptible, Deep, Despicable, Distress, From, Grief, In, Mean, Miserable, Or, Paltry, Poem, Poor, Sunk, Very, Want, Wicked, Woeful, Worthless, Wretched

Wretched Quotations 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 wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. Samuel Johnson 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 Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him. Samuel Butler

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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