Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WRETCH'ED, a.

1. Very miserable; sunk into deep affliction or distress, either from want, anxiety or grief. The wretched find no friends. – Dryden.
2. Calamitous; very afflicting; as, the wretched condition of slaves in Algiers.
3. Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.
4. Despicable; hatefully vile and contemptible. He was guilty of wretched ingratitude.