WRETCH, n. 1. A miserable person; one sunk in the deepest distress; as a forlorn wretch.2. A worthless mortal; as a contemptible wretch.3. A person sunk in vice; as a profligate wretch.4. It is sometimes used by way of slight or ironical pity or contempt.Poor wretch was never frighted so.5. It is sometimes used to express tenderness; as we say, poor thing.
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