English-French translations for wretched

• misérable
  Personne n'apprécie sa vie misérable, peut-être rendue trop misérable, plus chèrement que dans l'honneur abstrait de la patrie. No one values his wretched life - perhaps made too wretched - more dearly than the abstract honour of the homeland.
  Y a-t-il jamais eu grand projet humain qui se soit appuyé sur un chiffre aussi misérable? Has there ever been a great human endeavour that took such a wretched figure as its basis?
  J’invite cette Assemblée et le commissaire à la justice à s’élever contre cette misérable loi. I call on this House and the Justice Commissioner to speak out against this wretched legislation.
• pauvre
  Même dans de tels cas, la liberté est illusoire et, en réalité, c’est toujours le fait d’une sorte de pirates sordides qui exploitent la détresse des donneurs pauvres et défavorisés. Even in such cases, freedom is illusory and the reality is still a sordid form of piracy that exploits the helplessness of the poor, wretched donors.
• piètre

Definition of wretched

• Very miserable; feeling deep affliction or distress
• Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable
• Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked

Examples

• I felt wretched after my wife died.
• The street was full of wretched beggars dressed in rags.
• Will you please stop playing that wretched trombone!

Related words

• wretchedness
• wretchedly
• wretched fellow
• in wretched poverty