The phrase "a woeful state" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or condition that is unfortunate, miserable, or deeply troubling.
Example: "After the storm, the town was left in a woeful state, with homes destroyed and families displaced."
Alternatives: "a dire situation" or "a lamentable condition."
Bafnaz is in a woeful state.
As a leader article this week laments, the global economy is in a woeful state.
Rural Angola, which was largely controlled by UNITA for most of the past 30 years, is in a woeful state.
LET us begin the school year by stating the obvious: American handwriting is in a woeful state.
And he must modernise and energise the party's grass-roots organisation, which has fallen into a woeful state of disrepair.Mr Hague, the boy wonder of British politics, has not been slow in seizing his political chances.
Broadband in the UK is in a woeful state – and the BDUK commissioning process which allows BT to create a near monopoly position in rural provision is in large part responsible.
He says: "Football in India was in a pretty woeful state when our cameras began rolling and by the looks of its continuing poor standing in the Fifa international rankings, it still is.
But there is a big bottleneck: the woeful state of the country's ports.
It is a bona fide catastrophe, especially considering the woeful state of New York's subways; a new line along Second Avenue has now been delayed for 85 years.
The chairman before Bill Ford was Sir Alex (now Lord) Trotman, a Scot who spent his whole career with the firm.Ironically, Ford may have been a direct beneficiary of the woeful state of British manufacturing in general, and its car industry in particular, in the 1960s and 1970s.
On the other hand, whether current host David Gregory is around for very much longer is becoming more of an open question these days, especially after the Washington Post just published a long story about the woeful state of affairs at Meet The Press under Gregory's lead.
