0 unpleasant or of low quality: --
2 used to express anger when something annoying happens: --
My wretched car's broken down again.
Do not just read this wretched departmental brief.
The wretched local authorities do not know from one month to another how many sites they will require.
As a result, many wretched and insanitary basements have been used.
With housing repairs, there is another wretched scandal.
If they are neglected it will cause the standard of life to remain at its present wretched and depressed level.
Suppose there were no regulations in force for the time being, then the wretched applicant will not be able to make any objection at all.
I have never been accosted by these wretched people more often than in the past fortnight.
The wretched part of it was that at the magistrates' court one could not cross-examine the author of the report because she was not there.
