Synonyms for woes
woes

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1. blues

   an expression of sorrow, misery or distress; a feeling of dispondency or dispair

   "avoid valentine day flower blues by purchasing flowers the day before valentine's day"

   Submitted by acronimous on February 15, 2014  

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1. List of paraphrases for "woes":

   misfortunes, evils, afflictions, ills, problems

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1. Menander:

   Riches cover a multitude of woes.

2. Sean Newman:

   All the woes that were plaguing EM are somewhat diminished, you could call it the JOC principle - Fed Chairman Janet Yellen, Oil and China.

3. Homer:

   Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.

4. Chief Executive Officer Michael McCain:

   A MLF colleague of mine lost his wife and family this week to a needless, irresponsible series of events in Iran. U.S. government leaders unconstrained by checks/balances, concocted an ill-conceived plan to divert focus from political woes, the world knows Iran is a dangerous state, but the world found a path to contain it; not perfect but by most accounts it was the right direction.

5. Lim Kit Siang:

   My advice to Najib is to allow common sense to prevail, that blocking access to Sarawak Report is not going to end his 1MDB woes but the opposite, plunging his credibility and legitimacy to even unimagined depths, which is not good for him as prime minister and for the nation as well.