woeful

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• Since the summer of 1916, when the men were remanded here, this house, with its woeful food, furniture, space, and sanitation, had been their only home.

• H said half of the growth in revenue increases would go to the city’s woeful streets, storm drains, sidewalks and other related physical needs.

• Its strength of schedule ranks 78th out of 127 schools, and its only Power Five win was against the woeful Kansas Jayhawks.

• And its woeful end is a reminder that the U.S. has few good options in its attempts to bring American prisoners home.

• It operated a fleet of very old airplanes and had such a woeful safety record that FAA inspectors wanted to ground it.

• In much of the DRC, roads are in a woeful state of disrepair, and in Goma, the conditions are especially dire.

• The Romanov tsars imposed rigid serfdom just as that woeful institution was fading almost everywhere else.

• I sat in a suite at the Savoy hotel, in privilege, resenting the woeful ratbag I once was who, for all his problems, had drugs.

• Down the long corridors the wind mysteriously whispered, rising in inarticulate moanings and woeful sighs, as of souls in pain.

• You didnt know that I was born under a lucky star despite all my woeful past.

• He put on a woeful face, pushed open the door, and went up to the counter, where the landlord still was.