- a variation of woeful.
woful
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Should we not justly accuse them of a woful lack of taste?
From Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach
The following verses, which set forth his woful situation, are placed at the foot of the Plate: 1.
From The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times by John Thomas Smith
In many a woful heart's disaster He felt the pang!
From Chimneysmoke by Christopher Morley
I can only pity men who exhibited such woful ignorance and imbecility as to be led away by misrepresentations that had not even the appearance of truth.
From The Trial of Henry Hetherington by Henry Hetherington
Despite the dangers that surrounded them and the woful anxiety about his father, that was never absent from Sam Willett's heart, he could not help being impressed by the wild weirdness of the situation.
From Lost in the Ca?on by Alfred R. Calhoun
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a word