woebegone in English

adjective

1

sad or miserable in appearance.

don't look so woebegone, Joanna

synonyms: sad, unhappy, miserable, dejected, disconsolate, forlorn, crestfallen, downcast, glum, gloomy, doleful, downhearted, heavy-hearted, despondent, melancholy, sorrowful, mournful, woeful, plaintive, depressed, wretched, desolate, down in/at the mouth, down in the dumps, blue

adjective

sad, unhappy, miserable, dejected, disconsolate, forlorn, crestfallen, downcast, glum, gloomy, doleful, downhearted, heavy-hearted, despondent, melancholy, sorrowful, mournful, woeful, plaintive, depressed, wretched, desolate, down in/at the mouth, down in the dumps, blue
woeful
decrepit, run-down, creaky, flea-bitten, derelict

Use "woebegone" in a sentence

1. She sniffed and looked woebegone.

2. Hepzibah looked at Carrie's woebegone face.

3. Look you are woebegone, what thing?

4. Why wear such a woebegone look?

5. The parting sadness vanishes slowly, and she is woebegone all day.

6. There's no need to look so woebegone - we can get it fixed.

7. In the bathroom, her woebegone face stared at her from the mirror.

8. Of course, the commodity that we face false bad today still is a pair woebegone.

9. When he wants to go for a walk, the dog sits by the door with a woebegone expression.

10. The no-more-bowing decision was credited to His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, an Amiable, faintly woebegone chap who is a cousin of the queen.

11. ‘The ship became Beset in the ice of the Weddell Sea on 18 January 1915 and was crushed and sank on 21 November.’ ‘She remains an orphan girl, and, as such, she partakes of the tradition of the orphan girl in the movies: outcast, woebegone, Beset on all sides, but plucky and triumphant in the end.’

12. ‘The ship became Beset in the ice of the Weddell Sea on 18 January 1915 and was crushed and sank on 21 November.’ ‘She remains an orphan girl, and, as such, she partakes of the tradition of the orphan girl in the movies: outcast, woebegone, Beset on all sides, but plucky and triumphant in the end.’