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or less commonly woful
1
: full of woe : grievous
woeful prophecies
2
: involving or bringing woe
3
: lamentably bad or serious : deplorable
woeful ignorance
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Examples of woeful in a Sentence
The puppy had woeful eyes.
The student's grades were woeful.
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Andrew Knoll, Orange County Register, 12 Nov. 2024
The woeful, eerily bright 2012 remaster of Silent Hill 2 has never felt like more of a distant memory.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
Despite a woeful regular season in his return from a second career Tommy John surgery, Buehler showed signs of life at the end of the campaign.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
Danilo has looked particularly out of sorts and was repeatedly caught out of position by Stuttgart’s relentless attacks, while also misplacing passes and losing possession in a woeful performance.
—Adam Digby, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Woeful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/woeful. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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