Miserable, wretched. Also: causing wretchedness or misery; evil, cruel.

Causing distress or sorrow; painful, grievous, dismal.

Causing discomfort, pain, or trouble; unpleasant, offensive, disagreeable; troublesome, painful.

Wretched, miserable, lowly.

miserable, wretched.

Of poor quality or little worth. gen. Not of the expected or requisite quality; poor, worthless; deficient, inferior; of a low standard, below par…

Designating a poor or inferior example of something; of little account or value; pathetic.

Of a thing, an animal, etc. Poor in quality or condition; of little value; inferior; (of weather) unpleasant, disagreeable (chiefly North American).

Wretched, miserable. Obsolete.

Wretched.

Deserving of or giving rise to condemnation or regret; deplorable, lamentable; very bad; (in weakened sense) terrible, awful.

Of poor quality; not fit for purpose; worthless, useless; spec. (of a horse) sluggish, unfit. Obsolete.

Of a poor, mean, or paltry character; mean, worthless; sorry, trifling.

Miserable, wretched, unfortunate. Obsolete.

Unlucky, wretched; wicked.

Hateful, distasteful, horrid. Obsolete.

Esp. of a person: miserable, wretched. Obsolete.

figurative. Sorry, worthless, contemptible. Said both of persons and things. Cf. scabbed, adj. 2. Also of treatment, etc.: shabby, discourteous…

In pitiful condition, wretched.

Of persons. Miserable, wretched. rare.

figurative. Poor, contemptible. Cf. measly, adj. 3. Obsolete.

Mourned for; bewailed; regretted. Also absol. or as n., esp. in the late lamented, someone recently dead.

Full of misery: cf. thrall, n.1 3.

Miserable, wretched. Obsolete.

Formerly said of persons or things of which the state is lamentable or wretched. Obsolete.

Paltry, worthless; indifferent; poor in health or circumstances; so-so. Now dialect.

Somewhat poor (in various senses); rather poor.

figurative. Wretched, miserable, morally repulsive or degraded.

In jocular or trivial use: ‘Pitiful, despicable’ (Johnson); wretchedly bad. Cf. deplorable, adj. n.

Mean, sordid, shabby.

Pitiful, silly; poor, mean, paltry, shabby.

hyperbolically. Calling forth expressions of extreme disgust; of wretched quality, bad beyond description.

Mean, wretched; destitute; (later also) queer, peculiar; unwell.

hole in the wall, (an originally disparaging term for) any small, obscure place; spec. in the U.S., a place where alcoholic drinks are sold…

colloquial. Inferior, contemptible, of little value; paltry. Of a person: mean, stingy. Cf. measled, adj. 2.

Of poor or inferior quality; bad, unsatisfactory, second-rate.

Shabby and worthless; poor in quality.

Bad, contemptible.

colloquial. Miserably inadequate; of such a low standard as to be ridiculous or contemptible.