Wretched - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 07/03/2025

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Wretched.

6 letter answer(s) to wretched

ABJECT
  1. most unfortunate or miserable; "the most abject slaves joined in the revolt"; "abject poverty"
  2. of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"
  3. showing humiliation or submissiveness; "an abject apology"
  4. showing utter resignation or hopelessness; "abject surrender"
WOEFUL
  1. affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
  2. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"

5 letter answer(s) to wretched

RATTY
  1. dirty and infested with rats
  2. of or characteristic of rats
  3. showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"
SEEDY
  1. full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig"
  2. morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"
  3. shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain
  4. somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work"
SORRY
  1. bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
  2. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
  3. feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; "felt regretful over his vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase"
  4. without merit; "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no-good piece of junk"

3 letter answer(s) to wretched

SAD
  1. bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
  2. experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; "feeling sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti
  3. More miserable
  4. of things that make you feel sad; "sad news"; "she doesn't like sad movies"; "it was a very sad story"; "When I am dead, my dearest, / Sing no sad songs for me"- Christina Rossetti
  5. Unhappy

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A daughter overlooked by son is out of sorts
A thing that doesn't start is woeful
Apologetic with small truck not starting
Bad tempered
Bad-tempered
Bad-tempered blackleg, extremely testy
Blue
Blue almost all absent from greens
Blue fish not caught
Blue movies BAFTA recognised at last!
Brief apology
Bummed
Bummed out
Centre introducing cut that's wrongly perceived
Cheerless
Classic board game
Classic kids' game
Complaint letters periodically dispatched from island
Contrite
Cross off the sauce, eating fish? On the contrary
Dejected
Deplorable
Deplorably poor
Depressed
Depressing
Despicable
Dilapidated
Dirty recording that you must listen to!
Dispirited
Dog-eared
Down
Down at the heels
Down current unseen in Egyptian port
Down in the dumps
Down south and missing north
Down south in these times
Downcast
Downhearted
Easily annoyed a couple of times aboard railway
Elegiac
Far from posh
Far from spiffy
Feeling penitent
Feeling regret
Feeling sorrow
Forgive me
Forlorn thing, replacing love with one
Frowning
Gloomy
Glum
Graham's character showing signs of wear and tear
Grubby, like a pomegranate ...
Heads of state are disproportionately unhappy
Heavy-hearted
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I apologise
I beg your pardon
I didn't get that sad
I didn't quite catch that?
Ill-tempered piper helped solve such a problem?
Impatient tourist on vacation tucking into fish
In a blue funk
In a funk
In a pitiful state
In low spirits
In sorry shape
In the doldrums
In the dumps
Inferior, as excuses go
Insufficient, as an excus
Irascible and tense, repeatedly caught in beam
Irascible character in children’s book
Irascible tyrant going wild, eliminating unspecified number
Irritable
Irritable spoilt child's head clipped with sides of tray
Irritable, getting dry in a little sun
Jerry Lewis movie "The __
Kind of story
Lacking all dignity
Like a fig
Like a fleabag
Like a pomegranate
Like rye, usually
Like some buns quietly excluded from fast
Like some commentary
Long-faced
Low
Low-rent, maybe
Lugubrious
Mideast's House of ___
Miserable
Mole's friend in The Wind in the Willows
Moping
Moth-eaten
Mournful
My apologies!
Needing buoying
Not so nice
Not up
Not yet gentrified
Notice decay at edges, squalid
Of the most contemptible kind
Overly worn
Penitent; regrettable
Peppery fish quite dry on the inside
Periodically stand down
Pitiable
Pitiful
Pitiful 20 show
Poorly kept
Popular board game
Refuse to accept source of intelligence and intellect
Regretful
Regrettable
Rueful
Run-down, disreputable
Rundown
Rundown in appearance
Said when one leaves in low spirits
Scruffy notice on vacated distillery
See 14 Across
Shabby
Short-tempered
Singing the blues
Small bill is miserable
Somber
Some brat, typically grumpy
Sordid
Sordid, squalid
Sorrowful
Sorry
Spot duke with yen to get off
Squalid
Squalid, sordid
Testy – Wind in the Willows character
The German returns depressed
The German’s upset and unhappy
Threadbare
Totally without dignity
Unfortunate
Unhappy
Unhappy almost everything’s gone from healthy food option?
Unhappy with oil, initially changing fuel
Unhappy workers finally given notice
Unkempt
Unsavoury record on the radio
Very bad sailor capsized at first in stream
Very sorry
Wind in the Willows character
Woebegone
Woeful
Worn-out
Wretched play entertains British setter in Caen

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