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Tending to cause great distress or anxiety

Characterized by, expressive of, or causing sorrow or misery

Pitiful or deplorable

Suggestive of sorrow, distress or regret

Very unlucky or unfortunate

Extremely serious or urgent

Feeling resentment at having been unfairly treated

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Adjective

Tending to cause great distress or anxiety

unfavourable^UK

heart-wrenching

demoralising^UK

demoralizing^US

disadvantageous

foolish-looking

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“A woeful ballad about lost love.”

Adjective

Characterized by, expressive of, or causing sorrow or misery

down in the mouth

down in the dumps

in the doldrums

sick as a parrot

singing the blues

as sick as a parrot

heavy with grief

overcome with sorrow

discombobulated

down-in-the-mouth

on the verge of tears

sorry for oneself

prostrate with grief

ill-humoured^UK

uncommunicative

unable to be comforted

unable to be consoled

sorry for yourself

beside oneself with grief

conscience-stricken

with a long face

looking as if one had lost a pound and found a penny

discountenanced

in floods of tears

with tears in your eyes

racked with suffering

racked with pain

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“He felt a tug on his heart as he watched her face, her woeful expression silhouetted by the moonlight.”

Adjective

Pitiful or deplorable

a load of pants

not up to scratch

not up to snuff

dishonourable^UK

dishonorable^US

dissatisfactory

bargain-basement

of poor quality

cheap and nasty

end-of-the-pier

less-than-stellar

not quite the done thing

not up to standard

beyond the pale

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“At the start of the second half some woeful defending let Bamber Bridge in under the sticks to stretch their lead even further and the game was slipping away from the Harriers.”

Adjective

Suggestive of sorrow, distress or regret

down in the mouth

down in the dumps

racked with pain

racked with suffering

heavy with grief

self-reproachful

conscience-stricken

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Adjective

Very unlucky or unfortunate

behind the eightball

down on one's luck

cursed with ill-luck

disadvantageous

unfavourable^UK

behind eight ball

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Extremely serious or urgent

a load of pants

unfavourable^UK

poverty-stricken

life-threatening

not up to snuff

dishonourable^UK

dishonorable^US

evil-intentioned

full of hardship

earth-shattering

beyond contempt

suggestive of evil

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Adjective

Feeling resentment at having been unfairly treated

in high dudgeon

not best pleased

unjustifiably resentful

unjustifiably offended

disapproving of

fed up to the teeth

cut to the quick

with a chip on your shoulder

fed up to the back teeth

hot under the collar

with chip on shoulder

with a chip on one's shoulder

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