Definition of "wobegone" [wobegone]

• Archaic spelling of woebegone. (adjective)

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• "Jim Tracy, who had managed the L.A. Dodgers to four winning seasons in five years…and had gotten shelled as manager of the wobegone Pittsburgh Pirates."
• "To find it wandering like a spectre, lonely and joyless, where all around is gay — to see it dressed out in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wobegone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow."
• "The man was a short five feet, anemic and wobegone."