wretched

"Because I felt so wretched and awful in myself."

After all, the Dutchman had presided over a wretched start to this Premier League campaign, despite the club spending more than half a billion pounds on signing players since Ten Hag's arrival two years ago.

Despite their wretched run, Pakistan look stronger on paper than they did then.

After a wretched start to this term, the team lie joint-bottom of the Premier League table with just one point from their opening five games.

A freeze frame of a frozen-faced Biden — taken from his wretched debate performance — loomed from the big screen in the convention hall like a geriatric gargoyle.