WRETCHEDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wretchedly mean? 

• WRETCHEDLY (adverb)
  The adverb WRETCHEDLY has 1 sense:

1. in a wretched manner

  Familiarity information: WRETCHEDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRETCHEDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a wretched manner

Context example:

'I can't remember who I am,' I said, wretchedly

Pertainym:

wretched (deserving or inciting pity)

 Context examples 

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind!

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He had thought her wretchedly altered, and in the first moment of appeal, had spoken as he felt.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I am grown wretchedly thin, I know; but I will not pain you by describing my anxiety; you have seen enough of it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

When there, though looking most wretchedly, she ate more and was calmer than her sister had expected.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Alleyne, wretchedly ill and weak, with his head still ringing from the blow which he had received, crawled up upon deck.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This, however, none of them could ever do; for the thorns and bushes laid hold of them, as it were with hands; and there they stuck fast, and died wretchedly.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

In such a voice as might be expected from a hopeless heart and fainting frame—a voice wretchedly low and faltering—I asked if a servant was wanted here?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I have told you that she had only recently recovered from an illness, and was looking so wretchedly pale and wan that I remonstrated with her for being at work.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I passed the night wretchedly.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I heard that Mr. Sharp and Mr. Mell were both supposed to be wretchedly paid; and that when there was hot and cold meat for dinner at Mr. Creakle's table, Mr. Sharp was always expected to say he preferred cold; which was again corroborated by J.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)