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. 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.

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. Nakhshabi:

   Whoever has the seed of virtue and honour implanted in his breast will drop a sympathising tear on the woes of his neighbour.

5. Doug Kass:

   I view the current underperformance in banks stocks as an important intermediate-term opportunity to acquire valuable long term investments, deutsche Bank's woes are actually a positive for U.S. money center banks that are rapidly gaining share in fixed-income trading and retail and corporate lending.