[
UK
/wˈəʊ/
]
[ US /ˈwoʊ/ ]
[ US /ˈwoʊ/ ]
NOUN
- intense mournfulness
- misery resulting from affliction
How To Use woe In A Sentence
- Dudgeon made himself look like a schoolboy as he woefully mistimed a header on the half-way line.
- The government cannot ignore Britain's chronic productivity and housing woes. Times, Sunday Times
- Public expenditure on the arts is woefully inadequate.
- Don't surrender to this dark woeld.
- They displayed woeful ignorance of the safety rules.
- Let's not forget Jackson's woeful job on the script.
- My favourite character was Pedro, Napoleon's Hispanic friend, whose quiet manner and woebegone expression were constant throughout the film.
- To ease the week's woes, it's $2 off all draft beer and well spirits and $4 for a glass of house red or white wine.
- Demand is down across the globe as the economic woes continue to stifle growth. The Sun
- See you that fashion that wear a woebegone wording, how, primp as my boyfriend, so fold you old your good ego?