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# wretchedly

«wretchedly» in Mova's school dictionary: **in a very unhappy, miserable way** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

1) Wretchedly means in a very unhappy, miserable way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wretchedly/#m1)

2) Wretchedly means very badly or poorly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wretchedly/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, describes how someone suffers, or how something is badly made

### examples

- He lived wretchedly in a cold attic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wretchedly/#x1)
- The toy was wretchedly made and broke at once. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wretchedly/#x2)
- The thorns held them fast, and they died wretchedly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wretchedly/#x3)
- Nothing for maths. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wretchedly/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wretchedly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wretchedly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.