Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Wretched

Wretched , adjective

1.
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...
2.
Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.
3.
Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked. [Obsolete]
Wretched ungratefulness. — Sir P. Sidney
Nero reigned after this Claudius, of all men wretchedest, ready to all manner [of] vices. — Capgrave