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. Ron DeSantis:

   There’s a lot of the budget people used to say, they would blame Social Security or Medicare for budget woes. But the reality is they have printed trillions and trillions of dollars, and that has really fueled the inflation.

2. Doug Kass:

   Deutsche Bank's financial and operating woes as well as those of other equally challenged EU banks and concentration on cost savings instead of business building have and will continue to inure to the benefit of the large U.S. money center banks who stampede towards gains in corporate and retail market share as well as taking share in global fixed-income trading.

3. 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.

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. Menander:

   Riches cover a multitude of woes.