wretchful
adjEtymology From Middle English wreccheful; equivalent to wretch + -ful.
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Wretched.
Previously archaic or obsolete; now apparently used and back in fashion; previously archaic or obsolete; now apparently used and back in fashion
- 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.2012, Rudolph Altrocchi, PhD; Edited by Paul and John Altrocchi, The Playful Spirit: Italian Humor - Page 130