(1) A collection of odd people assembling in some godforsaken place to set off on a journey together.
(2) It means: how soon can I leave this godforsaken party without it looking rude?
(3) Idomeni, at the best of times, is a godforsaken place: bleak, barren and infused with a melancholy typical of remote border posts.
(4) Oh look, it's in Westminster, at the BBC, in the SWP, in the Catholic church, in the police force, in care homes and even in the godforsaken Lib Dem party.
(5) You are the ones who created this godforsaken racist system by using your circumstantial power and privilege 400 years ago to institutionalize white supremacy.
(6) "It's hard to imagine we could get any crueller than taking people in the dead of night, turning their boats around, dropping them off at some godforsaken place, somewhere off the coast of Indonesia.
(7) The enforced grave digger Michael Podchlebnik, and Rivka Yosselevska, her family shot in some godforsaken quarry, and Yehiel Katzetnik, who faints in court, and legions of fellow travellers – 14-year-old witnesses to Auschwitz or to the grim cleansing of Paris – and then comes the grand guignol, the footage from the camps.
(8) You may now be in the south and may not have lived in Sheffield for more than a quarter of a century, but when you go and watch United at some godforsaken third division ground, you are still part of Sheffield and Sheffield is still part of you.
(9) No, writes its nominator Grace Kline, who suffered from the village's "godforsaken" tedium and believes the poet deliberately set his work "a few miles above Tintern Abbey" (the correct title) because he actively disliked the place.
(10) But then he would sit next to you in some godforsaken canteen at some conference and ask you about your kids.
(11) Photograph: Charlie Skelton for the Guardian The Bilderberg conference was last here in Chantilly, at the exact same godforsaken spot, back in 2008 – which, like 2012, was a US election year, and the moment the current economic woes really started hitting the fan.
Woebegone
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) This was the tragedy that established Bridge Farm as the most woebegone of Archers homesteads.
(2) You have understood that come the day when no one believes in you, when you are no more than a woebegone troll, no one will want you.” Although a fan of the press, Moses acknowledged Ipso would occasionally make unpopular decisions: “But we are not here to be popular.
(3) Woebegone Andrew Lansley was assured there would be "no stepping off the gas".
(4) Samuel Eto'o, to take one case history, is a woebegone character in futile search of the predatory skills he has mislaid.
(5) Sometimes there are obstacles plonked in front of the door: anything from high chairs, bikes and toilet rolls to – I remember once – three woebegone dogs.