'wretched creature' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to express pity or contempt for someone or something, usually in a literary context. For example: "He looked down at the poor, wretched creature before him and knew he had to do something to help it."
"In a word, I feel myself the most unhappy and wretched creature in the world," the diseased composer writes.
Then there is its American, dear-god-hide-it-in-the-attic sibling, a wretched creature offering a mere 34g of satisfaction.
After several tries, I began to fear I might accidentally murder the wretched creature with an ill-directed chuck of the box.
But that night, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former partner, Jacob Marley, and by three spirits who show him just what a wretched creature he is.
In a letter from the time quoted in countless program notes, Schubert describes himself as "the most unhappy and wretched creature in the world," and yet these pieces are among his most gripping chamber music creations.
The bestial habits of this wretched creature, whose madness was intensified by his misery, and by his surroundings, made Talib's life more keenly horrible than ever ; but he himself was now fast sinking into the stolid, animal indifference of his right-hand neighbour.
In sum, human beings are wretched creatures, governed only by the law of their own self-interest.
We cannot contemplate the condition of these wretched creatures without being led to feel deeply that for all that is better in the condition of females in Christian lands, they are indebted to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
They were covered from head to foot with mud, and their faces were bleeding either from having been kicked or from the stones; they looked like corpses, but the crowd was so dense that I got only a few momentary glimpses of the wretched creatures.
For men are less concerned with hurting someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared, because love is held by a link of obligation which, since men are wretched creatures, is broken every time their own interests are at stake; but fear is held by a dread of punishment which will never leave you.
When Alix is on the prowl, she is a wretched, deceitful creature capable of any betrayal.
