wretched
/ˈɹɛt͡ʃəd/ adjetivo C1En español: infeliz, desgraciado, mísero
- Characterized by or feeling deep affliction or distress; very miserable. · I felt wretched after my wife died.
- Of an inferior or unworthy nature or social status; contemptible, lowly. · The street was full of wretched beggars dressed in rags.
- Of an insignificant, mean, or poor nature; miserable, paltry, worthless.
- Of a person, etc.: behaving in a manner causing contempt; base, despicable, wicked.
- Of weather: causing much discomfort; very unpleasant; miserable.
- Used to express annoyance towards or dislike of someone or something: bloody, damned. · Will you please stop playing that wretched trombone!
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Yielding up her last breath, she gasped forth this lament: “O wretched creature that I am!
The Walnut-Tree piteously exclaimed, “O wretched me!
He exclaimed with a too late repentance, “Wretched me!
His master one day, pretending to be angry and shaking his stick at him, said, “You wretched little sluggard!
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