You liar!" she spurted out. "You wretched liar!"

They live in a wretched little house.

Grit your teeth and keep working on the wretched painting.

It's wretchedly cold.

You look wretched!

Human beings—human children especially—seldom deny themselves the pleasure of exercising a power which they are conscious of possessing, even though that power consist only in a capacity to make others wretched.

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

Cinderella slept in a sorry garret, on a wretched straw bed, while her sisters slept in fine rooms, with floors all inlaid, on beds of the very newest fashion, and where they had looking glasses so large that they could see themselves at their full length from head to foot.

When it's warm the sickness saps my energy, and and it's no better in this wretched cold either.

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.