Woods's alleged cavorting with Vegas waitresses and celebrity groupies, his woeful "sexts" and voice mails, his driving his S.U.V. into a tree: all these things make him look weak and discombobulated.
Amnesty International wrote to the home secretary last month criticising the woeful response from European countries to the unacceptable scale of the loss of life from the influx of refugees and migrants on boats across the Mediterranean.
The Scotland manager and his squad arrived in Belgrade still unable to fathom outtheir woeful start to Friday night's 2-1 defeat by Wales at Hampden Park – a result that kept them rooted to the bottom of Group A with two points from five games.
Apart from the continuing concerns about corruption in domestic politics – from cash-for-honours to MP's expenses – the UK has a woeful record in enforcing the 1997 OECD anti-bribery convention, which outlaws the bribery of foreign public officials.
These might take the form of an inappropriate urban layout and woeful cycling infrastructure, a driving culture that works heavily against those on two wheels, or a dangerously polluted atmosphere.
It's the political handling that has been woeful, though Labour has wobbled woefully too.
For example, it barely seems feasible that Kutcher and Bieber could be as spectacularly woeful as Robert Carlyle and the kilt-wearing version of Samuel L Jackson in The 51st State.
I was hoping that my status as an alumnus, my fundraising track record with Amref (African Medical & Research Foundation) and the fact that I had bravely faced pre-marital wrath to take the interview, would outweigh my woeful knowledge of the higher education sector.
(4) Broadly woeful Disney Channel movie starring Lovato and the Jonas Brothers.
Credit must go to food writer and stylist Carol Tennant, who kindly advises me how to cut baklava neatly after seeing my woeful early attempts online.
"Marriage works," wrote the gleeful Scot on the courtside camera moments after Nadal had sent yet another woeful forehand into the bottom of the net on match point.
