wretchful
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English wreccheful; equivalent to wretch + -ful.
Adjective
[edit]wretchful (comparative more wretchful, superlative most wretchful)
- (previously archaic or obsolete, now apparently used and back in fashion) Wretched.
- 2012, Rudolph Altrocchi, PhD; Edited by Paul and John Altrocchi, The Playful Spirit: Italian Humor - Page 130:
- The wretch had the pernicious habit of writing in Milanese dialect. He was doubly wretchful when he took the liberty of giving birth to parodies of the Divine Comedy.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)
- 2012, Rudolph Altrocchi, PhD; Edited by Paul and John Altrocchi, The Playful Spirit: Italian Humor - Page 130:
References
[edit]- “wretchful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.