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

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

There was one point during the game when Mahomes, after throwing his fourth touchdown pass, put up four fingers at a woebegone defender, as if to say: “How ‘bout that?”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2022

For Prudence was an entirely different child from the woebegone shrinking creature who had stood in the roadway outside the school.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare