What's the difference between woeful and woesome?

Woeful


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Woful

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Brazil, despite some woeful performances this year, is still the most successful international team but has not exactly been a political giant for most of its existence.
  • (2) Even if Honda manage to improve their woeful power unit and McLaren make improvements to their indifferent car, it is difficult to see the team running better than mid-table next term.
  • (3) The bill will allow same-sex marriage for the first time in the UK; it will offer the opportunity to convert civil partnerships to marriages; it will offer opt-in rights to religious establishments, with the exception of the Church of England; it will also allow transgender people to change their legal gender without dissolving their marriages (a woeful omission from earlier legislation).
  • (4) Herrera’s bending cross reached Depay and he punished Watford’s woeful marking by cushioning a firm volley past Heurelho Gomes.
  • (5) TOP-AND-BOTTOM-OF-THE-TABLE BEATINGS "Nottingham Forest's woeful 4-0 home defeat to Scunthorpe made me think: what's the worst defeat suffered by a team leading its league?"
  • (6) The woeful lack of clarity does not engender confidence and trust.
  • (7) His first touch is woeful and a shooting chance goes a begging.
  • (8) However, Nwofor capitalised on some woeful defending from Hanley in the 90th minute to sweep the ball home from close range.
  • (9) Labour’s communication strategy remains woeful, and it lacks the means to develop a grand narrative that ties this all together, or a way of getting out of the “but you caused the last crisis through your profligacy” trap.
  • (10) He’s a man that, at 22, clearly has the world at his feet.” Everton could not have wished for a better start as Villa’s woeful defending at set pieces was again exposed.
  • (11) This would be a woeful prospect when taken in isolation, but seems more reprehensible when we know that others with much greater liabilities (moral if not legal ones) are treated with kid gloves.
  • (12) Kevin Mountford of Moneysupermarket.com said most savers were still earning "very woeful rates" and could improve their returns by shopping around.
  • (13) "I've been shocked at how America's politicians have been cowed into a woeful, shameful virtual silence by the gun lobbyists and the all-powerful National Rifle Association in particular," Morgan said.
  • (14) The atomic lobby sometimes tries to pass off this woeful track record as ancient history, but it is not – just ask the Finns .
  • (15) Its computer systems are still woeful, with paper files still used more often than the tools of modern electronic case management.
  • (16) The figures in computing and engineering are woeful and I think that is to do with perceptions.
  • (17) I've gone for the 49ers 31-21, but I've had a pretty woeful playoffs as far as predictions go.
  • (18) Despite Cameron's promises that he would lead the campaign to empower women and ensure female equality, Britain ranks a woeful 65th in the world in terms of female representation in parliament behind Kazakhstan, Lesotho and even Afghanistan.
  • (19) Their own civil servants have already advised them that 40,000 more children would fall into poverty as a result of extending the cap (this is likely to be a woeful underestimate of the true figure).
  • (20) And the public accounts committee has decried the woeful success rate of his schemes.

Woesome


Definition:

  • (a.) Woeful.

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