woefulness

The Democratic Republic of Congo in particular has a reputation for woefulness: Six decades after independence, three-quarters of Congolese live on less than $2 a day.

He carried an 8-8 mark to the mound on Monday, a testament to the woefulness of his teammates.

To be clear: there are zero rumors of this happening, at least as of now; the Giants are still reeling over their current woefulness and haven’t moved onto the “Well, what now?” stage just yet.

It also says much about the woefulness of Mr Najib’s government that many reasonable citizens would like to empower unelected figures at its expense.

It emerged as a jovial, half-smirking old man, with woefulness, or maybe just exhaustion, behind his eyes.