wretchedly

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wretch·ed

(rĕch′ĭd)

adj. wretch·ed·er, wretch·ed·est

1. In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable: "the wretched prisoners huddling in the stinking cages" (George Orwell).

2. Characterized by or attended with misery or woe: a wretched life.

3. Of a poor or mean character; dismal: a wretched building.

4. Contemptible; despicable: wretched treatment of the patients.

5. Of very inferior quality: wretched prose.

[Middle English wrecched, from wrecche, wretch; see wretch.]

wretch′ed·ly adv.

wretch′ed·ness n.

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Adv.

wretchedly - in a wretched manner; "`I can't remember who I am,' I said, wretchedly"

Translations

بصورةٍ تَعيسَه أو بائِسَه

elendigt

erbärmlich

misérablement

ömurlega; bölvanlega

miseramente

sefil bir vaziyette

极糟地

wretchedly

[ˈretʃɪdlɪ] ADV

1. (as intensifier) → terriblemente
she felt wretchedly alone → se sentía terriblemente sola
his marriage was wretchedly unhappy → era muy infeliz en su matrimonio
to be wretchedly unlucky → tener malísima suerte
to be wretchedly poor → vivir en la miseria más absoluta

2. (= miserably) "I made it all up," she said wretchedly → -me lo inventé todo -dijo desconsolada
they treated her wretchedly → la trataron de modo infame

3. (o.f.) (= very badly) [play, sing etc] → pésimamente, fatal

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

wretchedly

[ˈrɛtʃɪdli] adv

[poor, overcrowded, inadequate] → terriblement

[unhappy] → terriblement

[say] → misérablement

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

wretchedly

adv

(= in misery) → erbärmlich; weep, apologize, look → kläglich

(inf: = extremely) → verflixt (inf), → verdammt (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

wretchedly

[ˈrɛtʃɪdlɪ] adv (live) → miseramente; (say, weep) → tristemente; (pay) → male; (treat, behave, perform) → in modo atroce

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

wretch

(retʃ) noun

1. a miserable, unhappy creature. The poor wretch!

2. a name used in annoyance or anger. You wretch!

wretched (ˈretʃid) adjective

1. very poor or miserable. They live in a wretched little house.

2. used in annoyance. This wretched machine won't work!

ˈwretchedly adverb

ˈwretchedness noun

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Ross Browne are pretty correct in contour; but they are wretchedly engraved.

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I felt wretchedly old, and worn out, and unfit for my place--and began to wonder, for the first time in my life, when it would please God to take me.

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You may struggle nobly for twenty-four hours, maybe, if you are an adamantine sort of person, but in the mean time you will have been so wretchedly served, and so insolently, that you will haul down your colors, and go to impoverishing yourself with fees.

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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind!

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This, however, none of them could ever do; for the thorns and bushes laid hold of them, as it were with hands; and there they stuck fast, and died wretchedly.

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Her letter announced that she was "getting on wretchedly with her studies (which she hated); she found the masters appointed to instruct her ugly and disagreeable (and loathed the sight of them); she had taken a dislike to Miss Ladd

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"Oh, dear," said Tom, wretchedly, "it's not that, Pudd'nhead-- it's not that..

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He had scarcely greeted his hostess when he said: "Miss Maxwell, doesn't it strike you that our friend Rebecca looks wretchedly tired?"

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You must think wretchedly indeed of Willoughby, if, after all that has openly passed between them, you can doubt the nature of the terms on which they are together.

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Now Nada ceased speaking, and for a long while was silent; Umslopogaas was also silent and torn with pain and sorrow because he must lose the Lily thus, and she must die so wretchedly, for one reason only, that the cast of Faku had robbed him of his strength.

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"There wasn't any boy," said Matthew wretchedly. "There was only HER."

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There was no wind, and as the boat was wretchedly equipped, we could pull but two oars on one side, and one on the other.