Example Sentences
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In fact, the so-called positive attributes men are told to cultivate aggravate his woefulness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
He carried an 8-8 mark to the mound on Monday, a testament to the woefulness of his teammates.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2018
It emerged as a jovial, half-smirking old man, with woefulness, or maybe just exhaustion, behind his eyes.
From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2017
And, for all I know, the woefulness of this sword-and-mustache movie won’t succeed in exploding the loony conspiracy theory about Shakespeare it’s based on—and shame those who have been propagating it into embarrassed silence.
From Slate • Oct. 27, 2011
The οἰκτιρμοὶ τοῦ Θεοῦ, σπλάγχνα καὶ οἰκτιρμοί, rendered in our Version “mercies of God,” denotes something even more affecting,—God’s sense of the woefulness of human life,—“the pitying tenderness Divine.”
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.
