Similar words: woeful, usefully, ruefully, carefully, dolefully, hopefully, gleefully, hatefully. Meaning: adv. in an unfortunate or deplorable manner.
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31 Meanwhile, librarian Jane Lane has recently had to discard around 100 social science books because they were woefully out of date.
32 But as a theoretical basis for the protection of these rights and freedoms, such ideas are woefully inadequate.
33 Most of the ships were woefully short of ammunition.
34 Most sciences have become woefully compartmentalized.
35 Li sighed woefully and said,(sentencedict.com) " What bad luck!
36 Mr Giuliani has done woefully in the early states.
37 Maybe an important database is woefully out of date.
38 Their own techniques was at this time woefully imperfect.
39 Performance in every instance fell woefully short of promise.
40 "The dirty little secret about medicine", confides Paul Yock of Stanford University, "is that we physicians make decisions all the time based on woefully incomplete information."
41 "Small-scale fisheries are woefully underreported for bycatch," he notes, especially in the eastern Indian Ocean and off West Africa.
42 In truth, Mrs Gradgrind's stock of facts in general was woefully defective.
43 At that point the capital buffer implied by VAR turns out to be woefully inadequate.
44 Others, such as Germany, are being woefully timid ( see article ) .
45 Either you're woefully unprepared for a big test or you're naked.
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46 The amusing incongruence between their woefully out-of-tune singing and unflinchingly dedicated facial expressions soon became a hot topic among student-netizens.
47 But many doctors woefully evasive in talking with their patients.
48 The United States has woefully underfunded its national infrastructure, according to a bipartisan congressional commission, the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission.
49 The police SWAT team that eventually went in appeared to be woefully ill-prepared, and President Benigno Aquino admitted the personnel had not received adequate training or equipment.
50 Zhang's misfortune is not uncommon. China's housing boom has created a woefully frustrated class of bachelors.
51 Treasury Secretary Geithner concluded that the size of the NAB is woefully inadequate to deal.
52 Thousands of US homeowners grappling with problems caused by defective Chinese drywall (plasterboard) have found the federal government woefully unequipped to help them, according to ProPublica .
53 The 21% haircut on the net present value of Greek bonds outstanding, which was painfully agreed to by the banks and the Europeans earlier this summer, appears to be woefully inadequate.
54 The amusing incongruence between their woefully out-of-tune singing and unflinchingly dedicated facial expressions soon became a hot topic among students.
55 He said woefully: "I love my country, but it does not give a damn about me."
56 We were woefully outmatched in numbers in this new mortal weapon of the air.
57 It was woefully inadequate.
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