Crossword clues for wretched
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wretched \Wretch"ed\, a.
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Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting. ``To what wretched state reserved!''
--Milton.O cruel! Death! to those you are more kind Than to the wretched mortals left behind.
--Waller.The wretched refuse of your teeming shore . . .
Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.
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Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked. [Obs.] ``Wretched ungratefulness.''
--Sir P. Sidney.Nero reigned after this Claudius, of all men wretchedest, ready to all manner [of] vices.
--Capgrave.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.
WordNet
adj. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" [syn: deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful]
characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor" [syn: miserable]
very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages" [syn: miserable, suffering]
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" [syn: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor]
Wikipedia
Wretched was a hardcore punk band from Milan, Italy. Along with other bands such as Indigesti, they formed the basis of the hardcore scene in Italy during the 1980s. Their music was usually fast-paced with violent and dark lyrics.
Wretched were a doom metal band from Maryland during the 1990s.
Wretched is an American death metal band from Charlotte, North Carolina founded by Marshall Wieczorek and Steven Fundenburk in 2005. Wretched's musical style incorporates elements of heavy metal, technical death metal and melodic metal. The band is currently signed to Victory Records, and they have released four full-length albums.
Wretched may refer to:
- Wretched (punk band)
- Wretched (doom band)
- Wretched (metal band), a death metal band from Charlotte
- "The Wretched", a song by The Word Alive from their album, Deceiver
- "The Wretched", a song by Attack Attack! from their album, This Means War
- The Wretched, an English translation of Les Misérables
- "The Wretched", a song by Nine Inch Nails from their album, The Fragile
- Wretched and Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones, Black Veil Brides' third studio album
Usage examples of "wretched".
It was not at the agonized contortions and posturing of the wretched boy that he was shocked, but at the cosmic obscenity of these beings which could drag to light the abysmal secrets that sleep in the unfathomed darkness of the human soul, and find pleasure in the brazen flaunting of such things as should not be hinted at, even in restless nightmares.
As I was obliged to keep my room, I let my friends know of my confinement, and I received visits from dancers and ballet-girls, who were the only decent people I was acquainted with in that wretched Stuttgart, where I had better never have set foot.
She begged me to go into her sitting-room while she dressed, and we then went down and dined with the wretched secretary, who adored her, whom she did not love, and who must have borne small love to me, seeing how high I stood in her graces.
Fortune had made an actor of him, and he looked wretched enough, while I, the adventurer, had a prosperous air.
Sir Alured did not see the unfortunate young woman who had disgraced herself by so wretched a marriage.
Full of amorous wishes and having to be content with the teasing pleasure of seeing one another through a wretched grating, we racked our brains to find out some way to be alone together to do what we liked, without any risk.
The transportees, sunk in wretched apathy, doze or stare about in the asphyxiating miasma.
I was wretched: here I had my superior, at home there were the retired artillerymen, who ran out of their house every time they saw me coming and kept their eyes on the window waiting for a signal from my father.
Another, and another wail, while the wretched man hurries off, stopping his ears in vain against those piercing cries, which follow him, like avenging angels, through the dreadful vaults.
The thing was done so rapidly that the sheriff--a sly, keen fellow, worthy of his clients Barbet and Metivier--found the lad weeping in his chair when he entered the wretched room, after assuring himself that the manuscripts were not in the antechamber.
She began her wretched tale, which struck me with consternation, for I could not help feeling that I was the first and final cause of this long list of woes.
She raised herself in the bed and begged me with tears in her eyes to remain, and asked me how I could call myself more wretched than her.
And begob what was it only that bloody old pantaloon Denis Breen in his bathslippers with two bloody big books tucked under his oxter and the wife hotfoot after him, unfortunate wretched woman, trotting like a poodle.
At last we sat down to dinner, and the wretched woman contrived to get a place beside me, and behaved all the while as if I were her lover, or at any rate as if she loved me.
Here they went ashore to a wretched bivouac, to lie about the camp fires, with their belts drawn tight, chewing grass or aromatic leaves to allay their hunger.