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wretchedly

/rech-id/US // ˈrɛtʃ ɪd //UK // (ˈrɛtʃɪd) //

可悲的是,凄惨地,凄惨的,凄惨的是

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    wretch·ed·er, wretch·ed·est.

    • : very unfortunate in condition or circumstances; miserable; pitiable.
    • : characterized by or attended with misery and sorrow.
    • : despicable, contemptible, or mean: a wretched miser.
    • : poor, sorry, or pitiful; worthless: a wretched job of sewing.

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Examples

  • She could be wretchedly imprecise, capricious, and heartless to her co-workers.

  • Then again, no one can go far wrong by guessing that the wretchedly led GOP will once more deal from the bottom of the deck.

  • To this unpracticed eye, at least from the photos, the statues are at once sexually explicit and wretchedly unsexy.

  • In 1864 the railway was in a very bad condition, wretchedly run down, and woefully mismanaged.

  • John Peter, son-in-law of Alexander, a horrid blasphemer and persecutor, died wretchedly.

  • Men went clad wretchedly, with red Phrygian caps and no breeches.

  • The man Westwood was a poacher, a thief, wretchedly poor and in ill-health; he has no character to lose, no friends to consider.

  • But he was now by my presence so wretchedly detached from the great world he moved in that for a moment I was stirred to pity him.