Wretched

Wretch·ed

Wretched

a.
  1. Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.
    O cruel Death! to those you are more kind Than to the wretched mortals left behind.
  2. Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.
  3. Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked. [Obs.]
    Nero reigned after this Claudius, of all men wretchedest, ready to all manner [of] vices.