A miserable person; one sunk in the deepest distress; as a forlorn wretch.

Aworthless mortal; as a contemptible wretch.

A person sunk in vice; as a profligate wretch.

It is sometimes used by way of slight or ironical pity or contempt. Poor wretch was never frighted so.

It is sometimes used to express tenderness; as we say, poor thing.