Meanings of so woeful in English

The players, so woeful throughout, also have to take their share of the blame.

The famine grew so woeful that a woman devoured the body of her own child.

Heroes never went to so woeful a hunt.

The poor old gentleman shed many tears, and seemed much troubled to see me in so woeful a place.

Cliges, though pleased with this, goes away with a sad face: you would never see so woeful a countenance.

Their powerlessness rent their hearts, they were both so frantic and so woeful that their grandmother strove to calm them.

The seeds of which we are reaping so woeful a harvest were not sown yesterday, nor a few years ago only.

Then, seeing that Elsie's lip was trembling, and her eyes were full of tears, he continued: Don't look so woeful, Pussy.

Artur Boruc sank without trace, his late save from Clinton N'Jié exceptional only because everything that had preceded it had been so woeful.

Now, they rode on a long while again, and the Prince was so woeful, that he sat without sound or speech just as before.

Sri Lanka's cricketers have been so woeful in the first two one-day internationals against New Zealand that they've apologised for being pathetic and embarrassing.

"Strange that the dear father should have put it down so woeful deep," said Dame Brinker in rather a provoked tone.