wretched
英英释意
- 1. of very poor quality or condition;
- "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"
- "woeful treatment of the accused"
- "woeful errors of judgment"
- 2. characterized by physical misery;
- "a wet miserable weekend"
- "spent a wretched night on the floor"
- 3. very unhappy; full of misery;
- "he felt depressed and miserable"
- "a message of hope for suffering humanity"
- "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
- 4. 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"