The word "woebegone" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that is sad or pitiable. For example: "Her woebegone expression was heartbreaking to see."
A mere 30 minutes long, it maps the breakdown of a relationship, but rather than stewing in despondent aftermath there is a keenness to Michaelson's storytelling, there in the sharp cut of his lyrics, the humour, the precision of his vocabulary, that lifts these woebegone tales from the gloom.
On August 8th 40 woebegone North Africans were found to have increased the population of the Italian islet of Linosa by almost 10%.
A SCHOOL bus pulls into a leafy campus in north Delhi, stops before a squat brick building painted redder than brick red and discharges an unexpected cargo: a dozen men too woebegone and badly dressed to be scholars.
Many Belarussians feel more at home with Russia than with their own woebegone new country.
AT FIRST glance, it is bizarre that the hero of Poland's triumphant struggle to shake off the yoke of Russian-imposed communism, Lech Walesa, should have received a pitiful 1% of the vote in the presidential election on October 8th, while a former minister from the woebegone communist era, Alexander Kwasniewski, should have taken 54%, thereby winning in a resounding first-round knockout.
After swallowing up the Financial Reconstruction Commission (FRC), the new Financial Services Agency FSAA, formerly known as the Financial Supervisory Agency) will add the job of cleaning up the country's woebegone banking sector to its current duties as regulator and inspector.It was supposed to be a fresh start.
Alas, the prospect of electrifying the London-to-Sheffield route will make few hearts beat faster.Voters increasingly deem the Tory leader woebegone.
In Dutse, capital of Jigawa state, 16 churches were burnt down and thousands of people made homeless in rioting last autumn.In this section The widening gulf The Gazafication of the West Bank A miserable lot Woebegone Sharia lite The continent's celluloid moment Reprints Related items Islamic law in Nigeria: Shilly-shallying with shariaSep 25th 2003But things may be changing for the better.
In the United States Emmett Kelly and Otto Griebling, both at their peaks in the 1930s and '40s, popularized the woebegone down-and-out "tramp" character who provided poignant and comic insight into the small tragedies of life.
Murray, the man: That curious, woebegone, goofy face – simultaneously knowing and boyish – is, as Griffiths says, "an interesting surface for the work in and of itself".
Lawrence again shows the character's doubt as well as her courage and, late on, in another scene with the woebegone cat Buttercup, the explosive grief that she feels.
