woe

IPA: wˈoʊ

noun

  • Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
  • Calamity, trouble.
  • A curse; a malediction.

adjective

  • (obsolete) Woeful; sorrowful
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Examples of "woe" in Sentences

  • I'm in currently in the "woe is me" stage, which was preceded by the overwhelmed state.
  • Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris -- To have companions in woe is a solace to those who suffer.
  • It bespoke them rebellious children; and a woe is here denounced against them under that character, v. 1.
  • Yesterday's verse got little traction the status message poetry faction was completely out of action woe is me
  • All of those effete young men flitting about in their blue waistcoats and yellow britches crying ‘woe is me’ before offing themselves?
  • In this chapter, Jesus used the word woe eight times as a strong warning to those who, through legalism, were keeping people out of heaven.
  • This woe is the moral of that judicial law (Exod.xxi. 33, 34-22: 6), that he who opened the pit, and kindled the fire, was accountable for all the damage that ensued.
  • Virtually all of the recommendations in this piece call for a greater role for the government, and I don't apologize for any of that, for when the mountain of woe is as high as it is now, you call for Edmund Hillary, which in this case is the government.

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