Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: wretchedly
IPA transcription: [ɹ'ɛtʃɪdli]
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: wretchedly
    Meaning: in a wretched manner; "`I can't remember who I am,' I said, wretchedly"
Usage examples
  • I passed the night wretchedly.
  • "Yes; but you have a wretchedly small garden."
  • "No, I think not," replied the man, who looked wretchedly ill.
  • I am grown wretchedly thin, I know; but I will not pain you by describing my anxiety; you have seen enough of it.
  • He went about the town very wretchedly, looking for the Count, and regarding himself as a man specially marked out for sorrow by the cruel hand of misfortune.
  • You must think wretchedly indeed of Willoughby, if, after all that has openly passed between them, you can doubt the nature of the terms on which they are together.
  • A man wise but unlucky! Braving the ice banks of the South Pole, the coral of Oceania, the cannibals of the Pacific, only to perish wretchedly in a train wreck! If that energetic man was able to think about his life in its last seconds, imagine what his final thoughts must have been!"