wretched

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The wretched of Austin just ask for quarters.

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Quick take

of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"

adjective

characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"

adjective

very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for wretched.

adjective

of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"

See also: deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful

adjective

characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"

adjective

very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"

adjective

morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"

See also: despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless

adjective

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"

Example sentences

The wretched of Austin just ask for quarters.

The native iOS 6 Maps are just short of wretched.

I just lost twenty points of IQ reading that wretched tripe.

What came up was a wretched compromise, but at least it let us do our work.

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

It's a wretched hive of scum and recruiters, and they will never get between me and my email.

Have mercy upon a wretched orphan, who is in trouble [and] suffering.

Operators build the real things. They don't have time to learn about the rails stack or wretched languages like JavaScript.

"That's the kind of thinking that turned east Asia from a place of wretched poverty to a place of wealth in my lifetime.

Even if nothing else, the wretched of the earth offer those better off an opportunity to practice not being fuckfaces.

I've realized I would rather work in a dynamically typed language or a strong statically typed language than the wretched mess that is Java.

"Give me your tired, your poor,\n Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,\n The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.\n Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,\n I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

"Overboard" is a municipal website that has potent imagery of fully armored police officers pointing semi-automatic weapons at ten mugshots of wretched looking "Most Wanted" minorities.

It would be like if say, General Mills came out with a terrible wretched artificial sweetener and then decide to put it in every product they sell because well, it's their sweetener - of course they should completely dismantle all of their successful lines in the name of their incredibly unsuccessful one.