Thesaurus / woebegone
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The woebegone Houston Texans, 20-point underdogs against the unbeaten Arizona Cardinals, had parlayed a safety and a few RBI singles into a 5-0 lead on the road.
THIS NFL SEASON HAS BEEN DEVOID OF BIG UPSETS, AND GAMBLERS ARE CASHING INMATT BONESTEELOCTOBER 25, 2021WASHINGTON POSTOn this occasion, however, it failed to produce anything more than a woebegone pucker that foreshadowed something worse.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 158, APRIL 28, 1920VARIOUSThe girl of the Red Mill heard the speech of the stranger and noted her woebegone accent.
RUTH FIELDING AT COLLEGEALICE B. EMERSONShe was so absorbed that she almost fell over the woebegone little figure on the step.
THE STORY OF THE BIG FRONT DOORMARY FINLEY LEONARDHe stood before me the most woebegone, heartbroken man I ever saw.
A CONFEDERATE GIRL'S DIARYSARAH MARGAN DAWSONAlthough invariably English, they grow pale and woebegone just as easily in London as in Paris.
SEEING THINGS AT NIGHTHEYWOOD BROUNThey were a striking sight, numbering fourteen, in the most ragged and woebegone condition imaginable.
THE LIFE OF KIT CARSONEDWARD S. ELLISAnd I am not mad, only woebegone and fearful, for the night cometh, and I shudder at its silence and mystery.
THE TERMS OF SURRENDERLOUIS TRACYNear the couple, in a shadow, sat a woebegone looking man who had been holding a book so close to his eyes as to conceal his face.
UNDER THE ROSEFREDERIC STEWART ISHAMMother,” she said with a woebegone face, “why do the rightest things always be the hardest ones?
A DEAR LITTLE GIRL AT SCHOOLAMY E. BLANCHARDWORDS RELATED TO WOEBEGONE
- afflicted
- agonized
- ailing
- anguished
- brokenhearted
- crestfallen
- dejected
- depressed
- desolate
- despairing
- despondent
- destroyed
- disconsolate
- discontented
- distressed
- doleful
- dolorous
- down
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- forlorn
- gloomy
- heartbroken
- hopeless
- hurt
- hurting
- ill
- in pain
- injured
- melancholy
- mournful
- not happy
- on a downer
- pained
- pathetic
- pitiable
- racked
- rueful
- ruthful
- sad
- sick
- sickly
- sorrowful
- strained
- suffering
- tormented
- tortured
- tragic
- troubled
- unhappy
- woebegone
- wounded
- wretched
- bereaved
- bitter
- blue
- cheerless
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- depressed
- despairing
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- dismal
- distressed
- doleful
- down
- down in dumps
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- forlorn
- gloomy
- glum
- grief-stricken
- grieved
- heartbroken
- heartsick
- heavy-hearted
- hurting
- in doldrums
- in grief
- in the dumps
- languishing
- low
- low-spirited
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- morbid
- morose
- mournful
- not happy
- out of sorts
- pensive
- pessimistic
- sick at heart
- somber
- sorrowful
- sorry
- troubled
- unhappy
- weeping
- wistful
- woebegone
- bereaved
- bitter
- blue
- cheerless
- dejected
- despairing
- despondent
- disconsolate
- dismal
- distressed
- doleful
- down
- down in dumps
- down in mouth
- downcast
- forlorn
- gloomy
- glum
- grief-stricken
- grieved
- heartbroken
- heartsick
- heavyhearted
- hurting
- in doldrums
- in grief
- in the dumps
- languishing
- low
- low-spirited
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- morbid
- morose
- mournful
- out of sorts
- pensive
- pessimistic
- sick at heart
- somber
- sorrowful
- sorry
- troubled
- weeping
- wistful
- woebegone
- bereaved
- bitter
- blue
- cheerless
- dejected
- despairing
- despondent
- disconsolate
- dismal
- distressed
- doleful
- down
- down in dumps
- down in mouth
- downcast
- forlorn
- gloomy
- glum
- grief-stricken
- grieved
- heartbroken
- heartsick
- heavyhearted
- hurting
- in doldrums
- in grief
- in the dumps
- languishing
- low
- low-spirited
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- morbid
- morose
- mournful
- out of sorts
- pensive
- pessimistic
- sick at heart
- somber
- sorrowful
- sorry
- troubled
- weeping
- wistful
- woebegone
- affecting
- afflicted
- dejected
- depressed
- disconsolate
- distressing
- doleful
- dolent
- full of sorrow
- grievous
- heart-wrenching
- heartbroken
- heartrending
- heavy-hearted
- hurting
- in mourning
- in pain
- in sorrow
- lamentable
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- miserable
- mournful
- painful
- piteous
- plaintive
- rueful
- ruthful
- sad
- sick at heart
- singing the blues
- sorry
- tear-jerking
- tearful
- unhappy
- woebegone
- woeful
- wretched
- black
- bleak
- blue
- blue funk
- broody
- chapfallen
- cheerless
- crabbed
- crestfallen
- dark
- dejected
- depressed
- desolate
- despondent
- disconsolate
- dismal
- dispirited
- dour
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- downhearted
- dragged
- dreary
- forlorn
- glum
- in low spirits
- in the dumps
- joyless
- low
- melancholy
- mirthless
- miserable
- moody
- moping
- mopish
- morose
- mournful
- oppressed
- pessimistic
- sad
- saturnine
- solemn
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- sulky
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- bad
- blue
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- down in the mouth
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- dragged
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- dysphoric
- fed up
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- hurting
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- in pain
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- in the pits
- in the toilet
- let down
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- taken down
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- unhappy
- weeping
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- woebegone
- abject
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- base
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- contemptible
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- despicable
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- down-and-out
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- faulty
- flimsy
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- inferior
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- mean
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- miserable
- paltry
- pathetic
- pitiable
- pitiful
- poor
- shabby
- shameful
- sordid
- sorrowful
- sorry
- spiritless
- tragic
- unfortunate
- unhappy
- vile
- weak
- woebegone
- woeful
- worthless
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