[ UK /wˈə‍ʊ/ ]
[ US /ˈwoʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. intense mournfulness
  2. misery resulting from affliction
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How To Use woe In A Sentence

  • 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?
  • Woe slipped into the wheel; the merchant caught up the oaken wedge, and drove it into the axle-box from the other side. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
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