woebegone in French

woebegone in French

What does "woebegone" mean?

1. adj Describing a person weighed down by suffering or hardship and full of woe, meaning great distress or sadness; more loosely, forlorn, sad, or unhappy.
   "When he was finished, as such, he was wringing wet, and now he had to edge and shimmy his way back, and with a most woebegone look, and everybody laughing, except the sad blond boy, and the Minnesotans roaring in the cab."
2. adj Looking unhappy, miserable, or in a poor state.
3. adj Describes something that is in a very bad or neglected condition.
   "The 44-year-old Prokhorov, the second-richest man in Russia, is expected to assume control of the woebegone Nets within the next few weeks."

woebegone in a sentence

• When he was finished, as such, he was wringing wet, and now he had to edge and shimmy his way back, and with a most woebegone look, and everybody laughing, except the sad blond boy, and the Minnesotans roaring in the cab.
• The woebegone children have their aspirations slowly snuffed. Grace’s artistic dreams (of animation, of course) are punctured by her isolated existence; Gilbert’s pyrophilia is smothered by religious extremism.
• The 44-year-old Prokhorov, the second-richest man in Russia, is expected to assume control of the woebegone Nets within the next few weeks.

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