Meanings of woefulness in English

It was past ludicrous; yet admitted of no woefulness, nothing soothingly pathetic.

Even his mustaches were hanging in woefulness over his carefully shaven chin.

Occasionally, though, there is a play whose woefulness demands a whole new theory.

Drizzling they returned, images of woefulness in various forms, including laughter's.

Olive understood, or thought she understood, and the woefulness of it all only seemed the deeper.

I saw the woefulness again in Janie's eyes.

And find, moreover, the cause sufficient to palliate, to some extent at least, the woefulness of her cowardice.

These, of course, went to school every day, and were being taught to appreciate the woefulness of their inheritance.

Poor little man, he had a face that was cut for mirthfulness, and his woefulness was both touching and amusing.

Decades ago, one of Warren United's writers, Simon Nye, wrote Men Behaving Badly, examining my gender in all its manifold woefulness.

What pen can depict the woefulness, the intensified suffering of the inveterate stammerer, confirmed, stereotyped in a malady seemingly worse than death?

On the one hand, Saddam says he feels "immense woefulness" for the families of the thousands of Iraqi soldiers killed during Desert Storm.

I have orders to buy him for my captain. And he indicated Lionel, who stood at Rosamund's side, the very incarnation of woefulness and debility.

She lifts up her shirt and gazes at the Object's naked belly and, finally, with a kind of woefulness, bows her head and kisses it.

"Ah, well, it cannet be helped!" said the other, with philosophic woefulness.

It was past ludicrous; yet admitted of no woefulness, nothing soothingly pathetic.