- a variation of woeful.
woful
Example Sentences
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With these woful complaints agree the recorded facts of his life.
From Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses by Joseph Cross
You have managed so ill as to drive the marquis from his own breakfast-table with your ridiculous woful airs.
From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield
As human nature is forgetful, I imagined that my former journey, in my childhood, had not been so sad and woful as the present; I wished to be as I was then.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle
Shall I ever forget that woful face, white as the face of death, rigid with the calmness of despair?
From Out of a Labyrinth by Lawrence L. Lynch
Their appearance was so woful that it became a by-word.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
