woful

The want of a mark of punctuation, or the incorrect placing of it, will make the most woful confusion.

But a woful rude rabble there was, and such noises, made my head ake all this evening.

Woful was his fate—symbolic of the sad destiny which was to befall every literary man in Knoutland.

My uncle would be sunk dejectedly in his great chair, his scarred face drawn and woful.

She remembered Myra's broken wrist, and heard again the woful cry from the other squatter girl as she told of the harm done her.