Woeful
['wəʊfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['wofl]
Definition
(a.) Alt. of Woful
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Examples
- To whom the law-stationer relates his Joful and woeful experience, suppressing the half-crown fact. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He is sorely taken aback, too, by the dutiful behaviour of his nephew and has a woeful consciousness upon him of being a scapegrace. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- With woeful countenances they looked at each other. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Will my readers ask how I could find solace from the narration of misery and woeful change? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- My shoes were by this time in a woeful condition. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The travellers who first met them after their good service at Torquilstone would have a woeful flaying. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It was some days before she saw Jane Fairfax, to judge of her honest regret in this woeful change; but when they did meet, her composure was odious. Jane Austen. Emma.
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