WRETCHEDNESS

• (noun) the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry

  "he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness"

• (noun) the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant

  "the wretchedness for which these prisons became known", "the grey wretchedness of the rain"

• (noun) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune

  "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"

  synonyms : miserableness , misery

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