woebegone

[US]/'wəʊbɪgɒn/
[UK]/'wobɪɡɔn/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. appearing sad, troubled, or miserable; not respectable.

Example Sentences

don't look so woebegone, Joanna.

a rundown, woebegone old shack.

Real-world Examples

No one has ever seen mice more woebegone than these.

Source: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

She looked thunderstruck when she saw his woebegone face in the shadows of the drapery.

Source: Gone with the Wind

Harry had not seen him this close-up since his return to the school; he looked utterly woebegone.

Source: 5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Her situation seemed so hopeless, so woebegone, as to baffle mortal power to relieve her.

Source: Monk (Part 2)

Gerald had begun to work himself up into a pleasurable shouting rage when something in Scarlett's woebegone face stopped him.

Source: Gone with the Wind

Her eyes that had been so sharp and bright now quite frequently held tears, and there was a woebegone look on her deeply-wrinkled face.

Source: American Elementary School English 5

The boy's real name was Romeo, but everyone called him Lamp-Wick, for he was long and thin and had a woebegone look about him.

Source: The Adventures of Pinocchio

She did not tell them that it was utter boredom, bewilderment at actually being a mother and, most of all, the absence of Ashley that made her look so woebegone.

Source: Gone with the Wind

He looked woebegone and yet ridiculous, like a man who has fallen into the water with all his clothes on, and, being rescued from death, frightened still, feels that he only looks a fool.

Source: The Moon and Sixpence (Condensed Version)

Puncturing her tire near Summer Street, and it being mended while she sat very woebegone in that pretty churchyard, she saw to her astonishment, a door open opposite and the younger Emerson man come out.

Source: The Room with a View (Part Two)

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