wretched

wretched (http://definr.com/wretched)

     adj 1: of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing
            conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of
            the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" [syn: deplorable,
             execrable, miserable, woeful]
     2: characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend";
        "spent a wretched night on the floor" [syn: miserable]
     3: very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and
        miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity";
        "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages" [syn: miserable,
         suffering]
     4: deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable
        victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as
        extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals
        for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate";
        "couldn't rescue the poor fellow"; "his poor distorted
        limbs"; "a wretched life" [syn: hapless, miserable, misfortunate,
         pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor]