woe is me

Example Sentences

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While they do have an astounding amount of tolerance for his endless whining, his appeal was never his "woe is me" victim act, but his impunity.

From Salon • May 6, 2024

The cashier has to know — if I get busted woe is me!

From Washington Post • Aug. 1, 2019

“There are other people who’ve had better diagnoses than I have perhaps, but others far worse. I don’t get caught up in woe is me or why me.”

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2017

Take responsibility instead: Not in a masochistic, woe is me way, but in an empowering way.

From Inc • Dec. 10, 2012

‘You have,’ piped the little creature in the most silvery of voices; ‘and woe is me that I am the first of the sea-fairies to be caught in a net!’

From The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall by Tregarthen, Enys