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• n  a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
  the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable
• n  the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant
  the wretchedness for which these prisons became known
  the grey wretchedness of the rain
• n  the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry
  he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness

• But the village had no wretchedness of the kind found on the Indian plains.
• Look at the names on yesterday's arrest list, and it's a beautiful rainbow of wretchedness.
• Bridging the void between black despair and white unconcern, he spoke so powerfully of and from the wretchedness of the Negro's condition that he became the moral guidon of civil .

• misery
• miserableness

News & Articles

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• The Hitchcock Movie Series at the Louisville Palace presents 'Rope'
  In which two intellectuals attempt to stage the perfect murder - forgetting about the danger and wretchedness of hubris. Have you ever tried to imagine how to commit the “perfect murder”?
  July 26, 2013 - Louisville.com

Quotes

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• Richard Pryor in Gulf Times
  It seems to me that all the races and colors and tongues of the earth must be represented among the fourteen thousand souls that dwell in Jerusalem. Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of Moslem... Mark Twain http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNExtQerapsDxubOxnP_14oKy1B1vw CBS News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/05/18/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5023338.shtml&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG7oIgfvFmWD_8I1t4QJKc34d0iiA May 18, 2009 111370 146045 wretchedness I decided to make it my own," Pryor wrote in his autobiography Pryor Convictions. "Nigger. I decided to take the sting out of it. Nigger. As if saying it over and over again would numb me and everybody else to its wretchedness."
• John Adams in Culpeper Star Exponent
  But as John Adams wrote to Abigail on July 6, 1776: "Our Army at Crown Point is an Object of Wretchedness, enough to fill a humane Mind, with Horror. Disgraced, defeated, discontented, dispirited, diseased, naked, undisciplined, eaten up with Vermin...