woebegone

IPA: wˈoʊbɪgɔn

adjective

  • In a deplorable state.
  • Filled with or deeply affected by woe.
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Examples of "woebegone" in Sentences

  • I can still call his woebegone appearance to mind.
  • Tallick's mien was .. "woebegone" is the only word for it.
  • Chafed at having been described as woebegone, Diana lifted her chin.
  • Here was a motley crowd of woebegone wretches who had spent the night in the rain.
  • And perhaps I won't have to sit through another woebegone panel on the state of science fiction.
  • Sunday's Denver at Miami showdown was the kind of woebegone NFL contest Roger Goodell should have paid you $29.95 to watch.
  • Now at the end, he is stranded on the Great White Way in the woebegone rethought revival of On A Clear Day You Can See Forever.
  • But he can take his creativity, and some team's defense — maybe the St. Louis Rams 'unit or the Detroit Lions' woebegone collection — will be become instantly better.
  • The finest tennis player these islands have produced since Fred Perry will not see himself as a woebegone nitwit – and he is far from that – but his otherworldliness is also his strength: opponents are often as bemused by him on court as those employed to chronicle his pronouncements are off it.

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