Wretch
Wretch , noun
[Old English wrecche, Anglo-Saxon wrecca, wracca, an exile, a wretch, from wrecan to drive out, punish; properly, an exile, one driven out, akin to Anglo-Saxon wrac an exile, Old Saxon wrekkio a stranger, Old High German reccheo an exile. See Wreak, transitive verb]
1.
A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy.
The wretch that lies in woe.
Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son,
Wretch even then, life's journey just begun?
2.
One sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable person; a vile knave; as, a profligate wretch.
Wretch is sometimes used by way of slight or ironical pity or contempt, and sometimes to express tenderness; as we say, poor thing. “Poor wretch was never frighted so.”