wretchedly Copy link Outline 1. mĭsĕre2. mĭsĕrābĭlĭter3. măle (qualifying things, the excess of which is bad) • wretchedly: 1. mĭsĕre: w. anxious to get away, misere discedere quaerens, Hor. S. 1, 9, 8. 2. mĭsĕrābĭlĭter: to die w., m. emori, Cic. Tusc. 1, 40, 95. 3. măle (qualifying things, the excess of which is bad): I am w. afraid, male metuo, Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 2. w. hoarse, rauci male, Hor. S. 1, 4, 66. The superl. may sometimes express w. with an adj.: w. poor, mendicissimus, Cic.