0 extremely, when referring to something unpleasant or of low quality:
wretchedly inadequate
The wretched poor will undoubtedly remain wretchedly poor and the starving will continue to starve.
The children are wretchedly unhappy because of some social or economic factor in their background.
Although that is fine in theory, some of those programmes have, unfortunately, failed wretchedly.
I feel that there is only too wretchedly ample evidence that terrible things have happened to children and young people in care.
Having made the policy decision, they failed wretchedly to fund the policy.
The people are wretchedly poor, with only one doctor for the whole population of 80,000.
But all this takes place from a wretchedly low base.
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.
