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Woebegone

adjective

Worn and broken down by hard use. Synonyms: creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down. "A decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape" , "A flea-bitten sofa" , "A run-down neighborhood" , "A woebegone old shack"

Affected by or full of grief or woe. Synonym: woeful.

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"Woebegone" Quotes from Famous Books

... yet three!" cried Zuleika, with a woebegone stare at the clock. "What is to be done in ...

— Zuleika Dobson - or, An Oxford Love Story • Max Beerbohm

... of the gallant band of cavaliers upon their foray when they beheld the scattered wrecks flying for refuge to their walls. Day after day and hour after hour brought some wretched fugitive, in whose battered plight and haggard woebegone demeanor it was almost impossible to recognize the warrior who had lately issued so gayly ...

— Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada • Washington Irving

... so faint, so spiritless. So dull, so dead in look, so woebegone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him, half his Troy ...

— Familiar Quotations • Various

... proud himself, poor man. His mien was so woebegone, so supplicating under his friend's frown, that he moved him to pity. Decidedly, the cemetery had ...

— The Nabob • Alphonse Daudet

... to Craig. There was silence between them for a moment and they merely looked at each other. Elaine was pale and woebegone. ...

— The Exploits of Elaine • Arthur B. Reeve

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