The phrase "a wretchedness" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a state of extreme misery or suffering, often in a literary or formal context.
Example: "The novel explores the depths of human emotion, revealing a wretchedness that resonates with the reader."
Alternatives: "a misery" or "a despair".
Leaving the prime minister's residence on Sunday, Niki reported, Giorgos Karatzaferis, leader of the Popular Orthodox Rally, said he "will not contribute to the explosion of a revolution due to a wretchedness that will then spread across Europe".
His grandfather suffered horribly from black lung disease -- a wretchedness caused by years of breathing in tiny coal dust particles -- and Howard himself was diagnosed with it years ago.
There has rarely been a rivalry to speak of — one franchise rising as the other is falling, or both hitting the skids simultaneously, in a rivalry of wretchedness.
"Gin drinking is a great vice in England," he wrote in the early 1830's, when he was still a journalist, "but wretchedness and dirt are greater".
The confessions of musicians who have been through rehab can sound a little rote: a greatest hits of wretchedness, routinely recounted to journalists from the sunlit uplands of sobriety.
But anyone who travels knows that wretchedness on a plane is only a matter of degree and never confined to a single passenger.
It has one of the best closet scenes ever: with Clare Higgins as a raunchy, bibulous Gertrude dishevelling into a tousled heap of wretchedness.
According to Jonathan Freedland, a Guardian columnist who wrote "Bring Home the Revolution: The Case for a British Republic," the country's apparently boundless tolerance for multifaceted wretchedness is an atavistic echo of its roots as a feudal society -- deferential to authority and grateful for what its rulers deign to dole out.
"I passed a night of unmingled wretchedness," pants the tortured title character in one of many a palpitating passage in Mary Shelley's gothic novel "Frankenstein".
