0 extremely, when referring to something unpleasant or of low quality: --
wretchedly inadequate
We are not opposed to the principle of the awards enshrined in the orders, nor, in these wretchedly inflationary times, to an annual uprating.
Some of them have been wretchedly paid, cruelly exploited and socially ostracised.
In other cases the country itself may be able to help, but some of these countries are miserably and wretchedly poor.
We still have certain advantages, but we have failed wretchedly to make the most of them.
He asked why we were so wretchedly fidgety about it.
The fact is that we are wretchedly behindhand.
The wretchedly poor see that almost everyone else apparently live lives of harmonious luxury.
If they are proud of that achievement, their continuance in office is one of the greatest menaces which has ever confronted this wretchedly overburdened island.
