woeful的意思|woeful的解释-里氏词典

woeful ['wәuful]

a. 悲伤的, 悲哀的

woeful

[ adj ]

affected by or full of grief or woe

<adj.all>

his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone

of very poor quality or condition

<adj.all>

deplorable housing conditions in the inner city

woeful treatment of the accused

woeful errors of judgment

Woeful \Woe"ful\, Woful \Wo"ful\, a.
1. Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity;
afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad.

How many woeful widows left to bow
To sad disgrace! --Daniel.

2. Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful
event; woeful want.

O woeful day! O day of woe! --Philips.

3. Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor.

What woeful stuff this madrigal would be! --Pope.

It uses ten winds to no imaginative purpose, with a pair of piano-duettists tinkling away to distraction: it was like continually bumping one's head against wind-chimes. There was a woeful absence of pace.
It is only when the woman next door is murdered that Stone twigs that her own life is in peril. The movie's main liability is its woeful script, written by Joe Eszterhas, who penned Basic Instinct, which at least possessed a certain tawdry momentum.
'Fatal flaws of woeful England exposed', thundered The Times; 'Norse manure', The Sun added. Yet was anyone really surprised?
Even by standards of the recession-battered retail industry, Penney's performance since last summer has been woeful.
An army of orphaned or abandoned children is warehoused in woeful institutions.
Not to specify which particular single malt would be taken for a signal of woeful ignorance. And do not be crass enough to request anything other than water with the whisky.

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