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Significados de woeful em inglês

Of very poor quality or condition.

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Filled with grief, sorrow, woe.

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Examples for "mournful"
Examples for "mournful"
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The words of the first monologue were very mournful; they began with:
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 07
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His mournful eyes turned in the direction indicated and devoured the scene.
The Man in the Twilight
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Full of these mournful ideas, he repeated the following verse of Homer:
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19,...
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The latter said nothing, and all the others stared in mournful silence.
The Delight Makers
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She was everywhere in this mournful house in which he secluded himself.
Doctor Pascal
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A pity this: it is a good word for ashamed; sad, sorrowful.
The Irish Times
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Young Mr. Evans's whole manner says he is sorrowful but not surprised.
Black house
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She was too weary in body and sorrowful in mind to sleep.
Woman's Trials; Or, Tales and Sketches from the Life around Us
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The palm heard the sorrowful rustling in its leaves grow still stronger.
Christmas in Legend and Story: A Book for Boys and Girls
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The princess royal alone was silent; her heart was heavy and sorrowful.
Frederick the Great and His Court
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At once his countenance fell; he turned upon me a woebegone eye.
The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
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Withhold not Thy countenance from the tears and beseechings of the woebegone.
Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
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The boys groaned in unison at this, and even Betty looked woebegone.
Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp; Or, The Mystery of Ida Bellethorn...
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The Wobegon Boy in question, John Tollefson, should be anything but woebegone.
The Irish Times
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She looked very pale and woebegone when she came down to breakfast.
The Story Girl
Uso de woeful em inglês
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It didn't help that I was woeful at school games, of course.
The Irish Times
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Other broader data sources confirm the prime minister's woeful record on parliament.
The Guardian
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Our behaviour often reveals a woeful lack of understanding of basic arithmetic.
The Irish Times
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Māori Council spokesperson Maanu Paul said the consultation process had been woeful.
Radio NZ
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The incident throws a renewed spotlight on Indonesia's woeful air safety record.
Reuters
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Writers visited hospitals & found a woeful lack of medications & equipment.
The new yorker
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Secondly, the implementation of Twitter interactivity in the People hub is woeful.
The Guardian
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Mock, still limping and looking woeful, kept out in the open air.
Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops / Or, Dick Prescott at G...
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Although, considering the woeful season Amakhosi just had, maybe change is looming.
The South African
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I thought it was a woeful day when they took ranks away.
Gunn's golden rules
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Of many woeful nights this was the worst she had yet suffered.
The Odd Women
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This woeful shortcoming from bygone days attended other aspects of the scene.
Through the Mackenzie Basin / A Narrative of the Athabasca and P...
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The unhappy plebe certainly did present a most laughable yet woeful appearance.
Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point / Or, Finding the Glor...
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It was pretty woeful in the end and nobody can deny that.
The Guardian
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Overall, these Prime Day deals on Amazon Australia are absolutely fucking woeful!
News.com.au
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She gazed at him, and he never forgot the woeful, weeping face.
Dora Thorne
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