Woful

(a.) Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad.

(a.) Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful event; woeful want.

(a.) Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor.

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• Thus adjured, Topsy confessed to the ribbon and gloves, with woful protestations of penitence. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• She looked on Clara with a countenance of woful meaning, but she did not speak. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• With her woful eyes, so haggard and wild, so heavy and large, she looked all round the room, and passed the corner where he slept in his chair. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• In virtue thereof, it had become her habit to assume a woful look, which woful look she now bestowed upon her patron. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Millet's recent celebrated painting represents a brutal, primitive type of a man leaning heavily on a hoe as ancient and woful in character as the man himself. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Yes, ma'am, says Topsy, with a deep sigh, and a face of woful earnestness. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.

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