1. wretched - Adjective
2. wretched - Adjective Satellite
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryFamine means being deprived of and desiring necessary food. But there is something worse and more wretched than this famine: when someone is deprived of the necessary means of salvation and does not perceive his misfortune, having no desire to be saved. Gregory Palamas
The wretched have no friends. John Dryden
Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. Anthony Burgess
A wretched year has twenty-four months. Lebanese Proverb
It is a wretched thing to injure a poor man. Egyptian Proverb
Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life. Yiddish Proverb