The Clue
Most wretched (8 letter answer)
The Answer
SORRIEST
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Notes
The answer SORRIEST is rarely seen, appearing only about once every 2400 puzzles.
Related Clues
Most miserable
Most rueful
Most useless
Superlatively sad
Definition
SORRY as an adjective:
1. (pitying, sorry) = feeling or expressing sorrow or pity; "a pitying observer threw his coat around her shoulder"
2. (regretful, sorry, bad) = 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"
3. (deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry) = bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
4. (blue, dark, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary) = 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"
5. (good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry) = 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"