adj hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
2. wretched ·adj worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.
3. wretched ·adj very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.