wobegone
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Men stood speechless, haggard, wobegone, gazing at the desolation.
From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Coffin, Charles Carleton
The wobegone face hid its crimson tide in two quivering hands.
From The Secret of the Storm Country by Hitchcock, Lucius W.
Never did officer ride at the head of a battalion of more wobegone, spiritless wretches than I led back from Beaufort that day.
From Army Life in a Black Regiment by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
But look, what are yon wobegone regiments drawn up on the next shelf above? what rank and file of large strange fowl? what sea Friars of Orders Gray?
From The Piazza Tales by Melville, Herman
The sallow-faced gentleman crossing the road, and exhibiting so wobegone an aspect, has always had a bad liver; and you will never persuade him to look on the bright side of life.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 by Chambers, William
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