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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.

Phils-Rockies: Game 3 | ATTACKERMAN 2009

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 Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

Little of this wobegone song touched Flor even enough to let her know there was some one in the world more wretched than herself.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various

"Yes," replied the sympathetic friend, "but what has that to do with the wobegone expression on your face?"

More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher

From the back premises advanced to meet me the undertaker, with a visage tentatively wobegone, not yet knowing whether I was widower, orphan, businesslike executor or merely the busybody family friend.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21 Various

The man was a short five feet, anemic and wobegone.

Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers Anonymous

Some confused words of distress revealed the fact that the wobegone girl was even then fighting the final battle of purity against starvation.

Within the Law 1913

The wobegone face hid its crimson tide in two quivering hands.

The Secret of the Storm Country Grace Miller White 1912

Some confused words of distress revealed the fact that the wobegone girl was even then fighting the final battle of purity against starvation.

Within the Law Bayard Veiller 1906

Mrs. Marvin and her little girl, both of whom looked very wobegone and the worse for the voyage, into her, Vane glanced around.

Vane of the Timberlands Harold Bindloss 1905