Wretchful

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Wretched.

    "The wretch had the pernicious habit of writing in Milanese dialect. He was doubly wretchful when he took the liberty of giving birth to parodies of the Divine Comedy."

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"The wretch had the pernicious habit of writing in Milanese dialect. He was doubly wretchful when he took the liberty of giving birth to parodies of the Divine Comedy."

Etymology

From Middle English wreccheful; equivalent to wretch + -ful.

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