woebegone

Example Sentences

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In two years Curt Cignetti took a woebegone college team, with nary a five-star player, to an undefeated national championship.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2026

Like Clarence in “It’s a Wonderful Life,” Gabriel is a bit of a woebegone misfit in a long coat who needs assistance from the humans he is supposed to be assisting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

That includes a 7-0 record against the woebegone Oakland A’s — and if there ever was a year the Mariners wish they had more games against the A’s this is it.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 9, 2023

Alternately woebegone and hopeful, his star-studded “Lovin’ of the Game,” out Friday, is an ecstatic document of what the fiddle has meant to his story — and what he hopes to mean to its history.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2023

His twitchings exhausted him till he lay, breathless and woebegone, waiting for the next spasm.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding