Definition of "wretchedness" []

• An unhappy state of mental or physical suffering. (noun)
• A state of prolonged misfortune, privation, or anguish. (noun)

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• "Cursed, cursed be the fiend that brought misery on his grey hairs, and doomed him to waste in wretchedness!"
• "They try so hard to please their parents and even harder to understand them, and their resulting wretchedness is one of the most haunting subplots of the novel."
• "What was it specially that he called wretchedness?"