Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for WRETCH'ED-LY
WRETCH'ED-LY, adv.
- Most miserably; very poorly. The prisoners were wretchedly lodged.
- Unhappily; as, two wars wretchedly entered upon. – Clarendon.
- Meanly; despicably; as, a discourse wretchedly delivered.
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