Abject and Wretched

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Abject

Abject adjective - Showing, expressing, or offered in a spirit of humility or unseemly submissiveness.

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Wretched is a synonym for abject in pitiful topic. In some cases you can use "Wretched" instead an adjective "Abject", when it comes to topics like worthless, pathetic, hopeless and downtrodden.

Nearby Words: abjection, abjectly

Wretched

Wretched adjective - Extremely unsatisfactory.

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Abject is a synonym for wretched in pitiful topic. You can use "Abject" instead an adjective "Wretched", if it concerns topics such as worthless, miserable, terrible, pathetic.

Nearby Words: wretch, wretchedly

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From the late 1960s, it has been, as noted, a bit of a Wretched Hive, with rampant crime, corruption, and general abject poverty.

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