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 Charles Carleton Coffin
From the back premises advanced to meet me the undertaker, with a visage tentatively wobegone, not yet knowing whether I was widower, orphan, businesslike executor or merely the busybody family friend.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21 by Various
The boy—for he was scarcely more, big and handsome and strong though he appeared—looked terribly wobegone.
From The Tigress by Anne Warner
They knelt in prayer, their wobegone countenances suffused in tears, and with hands clasped convulsively together.
From The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney by Samuel Warren
Was that scared, bleak, wobegone face a reflection?
From From the Housetops by F. Graham Cootes
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