the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > wretchedness > wretch > [adjective] (4)
Of persons (or animals): Causing misfortune or trouble (to oneself or others); objectionable or miserable on this account.
Living or existing in a state of external distress or misery; that is in a wretched condition.
figurative. Of persons: Poor, mean, of little account or worth. Obsolete.
Not generous; ungenerous. Mean-spirited, dastardly.