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nouna state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
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nounthe character of being uncomfortable and unpleasanttype of:
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nounthe quality of being poor and inferior and sorrytype of:
Examples of wretchedness
- "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"
- "the wretchedness for which these prisons became known"
- "the grey wretchedness of the rain"
- "he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness"