poverty-ridden vs woeful

poverty-ridden

adj
  • Filled with or plagued by poverty. 

  • During which one suffers or has suffered from poverty. 

  • Suffering from poverty. 

woeful

adj
  • Wretched; paltry; poor. 

  • Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction. 

  • Lamentable, deplorable. 

  • Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity. 

How often have the words poverty-ridden and woeful occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )