'woes' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when referring to something that causes a person or group to suffer, or a state of suffering or grief. Example: The family had been through many privations and woes in recent years.
Shirley Temple sings On The Good Ship Lollipop As a child Temple's popularity rocketed during the 1930s when she became a iconic figure of America's economic woes.
Public mistrust of government is high in Britain, and deference to the political elite has also collapsed as economic woes erode living standards.
The party will also expect to increase its overall Dáil representation as it hopes to harvest votes from disgruntled Fianna Fáil supporters, who are going to abandon the Soldiers of Destiny in their droves as punishment for Brian Cowen's mishandling of Ireland's fiscal woes.
Legislation and tax relief are not the answer to our cinema woes.
But despite the generous gesture from Gillard, Carr did not in the end stand by her as Labor's leadership woes entered their decisive period in 2013.
Their chance Sunday night is to declare on Fan Appreciation Night that the woes of September and October are gone, if one match can even do that.
Why has it been so hard for the Co-op, despite commercial woes (especially on the supermarket side) that have been shockingly obvious, to change its ways?
Tsipras's leftist-led administration, while acutely aware that the majority of Greeks wish to remain part of the eurozone, insists that it does not have a mandate to enforce measures that would worsen living standards and Greece's economic woes.
They both focused on the faltering start to Obama's healthcare reforms as an example of big government woes.
To add to Clegg's woes, a universities thinktank has challenged claims by ministers that proposed scholarships for the poorest students will boost social mobility.
The value of Iran's national currency, the rial, has dropped dramatically in recent years as the result of western sanctions, which have compounded the country's economic woes.
