woebegone

The whole staff looked woebegone, having been up all night trying to find something they had not done.

Something in that woebegone voice reached him as nothing else could.

Those woebegone eyes never left her face as he nodded.

In the spring it looked so woebegone that I gave up hope.

Some people were clearly put off by the park's woebegone appearance.

No one has ever seen mice more woebegone than these.

Very often, they had hired the children as a favor to woebegone parents.

If his mother, Angela, was woebegone, she had reason to be.

The woman's woebegone face became a little less so as the physician spoke.

She glanced at Pete and looked more woebegone than ever.

This came out as less of a question and more like a woebegone whine.

He looked at me, and it was a sad, woebegone expression.

This was a woebegone team that had never won more than 69 games in a season, but prospects were looking good.

He led the woebegone Cowboys to the playoffs last season.

Then his features collapsed back to their normal, woebegone state.

Rather than angry, her face was woebegone to the edge of tears.

My children exchanged looks; they both looked solemn, almost woebegone.

She looked so woebegone that Orchid felt sorry for her.

He is just a funny cat, with a woebegone expression.

He knew that his face must be even more woebegone than his voice.

"I want to go home, Nicholas," she said in a woebegone voice.

He smiled at the woebegone look on her face.

He glanced at her woebegone face, his eyes intent and probing.

He looked in concern at the woebegone and bedraggled figures before him.

His face collapsed into such a woebegone expression that he seemed close to tears.