woe
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Woe to anyone who would bother Windey on a Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2025
Employees are encouraged to gain mastery over what Kier Eagan describes as the Four Tempers: Woe, Frolic, Dread and Malice.
From Salon • Feb. 15, 2025
Woe to any private pilot who wants to fly a light airplane anywhere near Washington these days.
From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2022
"Woe betide you if you were a preacher and you misquoted," Lord Sentamu says.
From BBC • Sep. 17, 2022
Woe betide the plant whose genetic program is mismatched to the latitude of the field in which it is planted!
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act II
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