The phrase "a wretched experience" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or event that was extremely unpleasant or distressing.
Example: "The storm left us stranded for hours, and it turned into a wretched experience that I hope to never repeat."
Alternatives: "a miserable experience" or "a dreadful experience".
After a wretched experience at boarding school, where Carroll's prevailing wish was to be, as he ominously said, "secure from annoyance at night," he arrived at Oxford, in 1851.
Last weekend's 34-7 hammering by Wales in Cardiff was a wretched experience for Scots in the stand; the past week hasn't been much better for a few who were on the pitch.
According to Charles Walcott, the regimental historian, despite Morse's decades of experience with the State Militia, he was, "entirely destitute of soldierly enthusiasm or spirit, wonderfully ignorant of military drill and maneuvres, and a wretched disciplinarian".
A majority of those polled before the deliberative poll were fed up with crime and ready to exact harsh measures against criminals, including doing away with the "right to silence" (similar to the U.S. right to freedom from self-incrimination), making prison a more wretched experience, and even bringing back the death penalty.
But there are seats that even under ideal circumstances provide flyers with an absolutely wretched experience.
Or, they may have the wretched experience when death comes unnaturally or out of the assumed order of things.
One poet can't do a piece to camera because of voices off loudly claiming that he spent the previous night in a four-star hotel; another finds a catering wagon serving ample lunches has been manoeuvred into shot as he evokes Clare's wretched experiences.
The experience that they have endured is a wretched indictment of some officers and of the leadership of the capital's police.
A precious point was there to be snaffled and, having ruined their first league game under Mark Hughes with a wretched collapse against West Ham last Saturday, that unfamiliar sensation Southampton were experiencing was a surge of optimism.
