Word Meanings - WRETCHEDLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a wretched manner; miserably; despicable.

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• DESPICABLE
  Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift. Syn. -- Contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; pitiful; paltry; sordid; low; base. See Contemptible.
• WRETCHEDLY
  In a wretched manner; miserably; despicable.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• MISERABLY
  In a miserable; unhappily; calamitously; wretchedly; meanly. They were miserably entertained. Sir P. Sidney. The fifth was miserably stabbed to death. South.
• DESPICABLENESS
  The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• WRETCH
  wretch, fr. wrecan to drive out, punish; properly, an exile, one driven out, akin to AS. wræc an exile, OS. wrekkio a stranger, OHG. 1. A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy. "The wretch that lies in woe." Shak. Hovered thy spirit o'er thy
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• WRETCHFUL
  Wretched. Wyclif.
• WRETCHEDNESS
  1. The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A wretched object; anything despicably. Eat worms and such wretchedness. Chaucer.
• WRETCHLESS
  Reckless; hence, disregarded. -- Wretch"less*ly, adv. -- Wretch"less*ness, n. Bk. of Com. Prayer. Your deaf ears should listen Unto the wretchless clamors of the poor. J. Webster.
• WRETCHED
  1. Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting. "To what wretched state reserved!" Milton. O cruel! Death! to those you are more kind Than to the
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.