woful
- a variation of woeful.
Example Sentences
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Sir Dietrich, hear my tale; Surely heard I never such wild and woful wail, As in my ears is ringing, through all the life I've past.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Shall I ever forget that woful face, white as the face of death, rigid with the calmness of despair?
From Out of a Labyrinth by Lynch, Lawrence L.
This was a woful grievance to the bulk of the tenants, especially to elderly or infirm persons, or others remote from the county town.
From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus
With these woful complaints agree the recorded facts of his life.
From Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses by Cross, Joseph
Should we not justly accuse them of a woful lack of taste?
From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst
