an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
"the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"
"the earthquake was a disaster"
drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance excites terror or pity
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tragedies
O comfort-killing Night, image of hell!
Dim register and notary of shame!
Black stage for tragedies and murders fell!
Vast, sin-concealing chaos! nurse of blame!
Blind, muffled bawd! dark harbor for defame!
Grim cave of death! whispering conspirator,
With close-tongued treason and the ravisher! [ William Shakespeare ]
There is something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love. It is the faithless who know love's tragedies. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Almost all my tragedies were sketched in my mind, either in the act of hearing music or a few hours after. [ Alfieri ]
Actions are the first tragedies in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst ; the last is a real tragedy! [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
D'Alembert tells us that Voltaire had always lying on his table the Petit Careme
of Massillon and the Tragedies
of Racine; the former to fix his taste in prose composition, and the latter in poetry. [ Dugald Stewart ]
The world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them; consequently, whatever the world has treated seriously belongs to the comedy side of things. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
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The word tragedies is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.
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