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WOE-BEGONE

Traducere în limba română

woe-begone adjectiv

1. copleşit de durere.

2. mâhnit; nenorocit.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Presently a fox met him: What’s the matter, my friend? said he, why do you hang down your head and look so lonely and woe-begone?

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

It stood crouched, with tail between its legs, like a miserable and woe-begone dog.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

It is now after the dinner-hour of the asylum, and as yet my patient sits in a corner brooding, with a dull, sullen, woe-begone look in his face, which seems rather to indicate than to show something directly.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

She rushed to the door when the postman rang, was rude to Mr. Brooke whenever they met, would sit looking at Meg with a woe-begone face, occasionally jumping up to shake and then kiss her in a very mysterious manner.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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