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wretched
adjective
a) Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.

Jan Hollar authored many wretched poems.

b) Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable

Jan Hollar lived in a wretched cabin.

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