woe is me

Example Sentences

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“I don’t want this to sound like woe is me, but I’ll be honest,” Farrow says.

From Washington Post • Oct. 10, 2019

Your book is not a "woe is me" story.

From Salon • May 25, 2019

So for me to sit up here and complain and say woe is me?

From The Guardian • Feb. 4, 2017

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

From Inc • Dec. 10, 2012

IV 'Oh woe is me, that ever I did see The beauty that did me bewitch.''—

From Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna by Vidy?pati Th?kura