Forgotten
Forgotten adjective - Left unoccupied or unused.
Usage example: a long-forgotten house down a winding dirt road
Wretched
Wretched adjective - Extremely unsatisfactory.
Forgotten and wretched are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Forgotten" instead an adjective "Wretched".
Nearby Words: wretch, wretchedly
Both words in one sentence
- The Big Bad, yeah, but what she wants is to just make a Utopia, and she has forgotten the costs of this due to grief at her lover's passing, she had to kill her own best friend when he turned against her and tried to shoot her numerous times, calling her a wretched villain for what she did.
Source: Jerkass Woobie / Fan Works -
Footnote Fever: For backstory, digressions, gags, set-ups for Brick Jokes... Forgotten Trope: Newt's wretched Wasabi automobile is a borderline example of the forgotten "Japanese Technology is Shoddy" trope, which had already pretty much died out when the book was written.
Source: Literature / Good Omens
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