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How to pronounce woebegone in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms woeful


his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone.
Type Words
Synonyms creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down


a woebegone old shack.

Examples of woebegone

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When you lose 6-4, it's tough to realistically imagine a more woebegone scenario.
From the post-gazette.com
Over that same span, the woebegone Rams were actually one game better at 47-81.
From the stltoday.com
An AIDS-carrying seducer infecting half of an upstate county's woebegone girls?
From the time.com
Woebegone even at the best of times, the salesman is having one of his worse days.
From the time.com
Three nights ago, the woebegone Cavaliers beat the whoa-they-got-Melo Knicks.
From the denverpost.com
The woebegone Pirates, of course, haven't done much right in the last decade.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
This year, we may actually witness much improvement from our woebegone team.
From the freep.com
On Monday, Kasten lined up radio gigs to hawk his woebegone team's tickets.
From the washingtonpost.com
Joan Fontaine, then 26, was the estranged, woebegone Jane in Robert Stevenson's version.
From the kentucky.com
More examples
  • Creaky: worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack"
  • Affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
  • Lake Wobegon is a fictional town in the U.S. state of Minnesota, said to have been the boyhood home of Garrison Keillor. ...
  • In a deplorable state; filled with or deeply affected by woe
  • Sorrowful, downcast.