woeful
adjective/ˈwoʊfəl/
Frequency rank: #17,373 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
very sad, pitiful, or deplorably bad in quality.
Example sentence
The team's performance was woeful, and they lost the match by a huge margin.
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