woefully
in a sad or miserable way: More often than I care to remember, I’ve been stumped for suitable small talk and have ended up staring woefully into my drink.
to a particularly regrettable or unfortunate degree:The treatments prescribed by this psychiatrist are at best woefully inadequate, and at worst, make the patients more disabled than when they started out.
Origin of woefully
1- Sometimes wo·ful·ly .
Other words from woefully
- un·woe·ful·ly, adverb
Words Nearby woefully
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How to use woefully in a sentence
The team tried to avoid face-to-face contact during the preseason by not tackling or blocking normally and holding all meetings virtually, but it was woefully unprepared in a 55-3 loss to BYU in the season opener.
Navy will host Memphis and Tulsa to make up games postponed by coronavirus issues | Kareem Copeland | November 20, 2020 | Washington PostIn 2012, though, Koney’s first attempt at becoming a pineapple farmer “failed woefully,” he says, due to theft, unavailability of fertilizers and the lack of a reliable market for his produce, among other factors.
One need only look at laws and practices for hundreds of years to see how the nation continually struggles to live up to its ideals and promises written so eloquently on paper, yet so woefully unfulfilled in practice.
At the beginning of the pandemic the US had woefully small testing capacity.
Science was a big winner—and loser—at this week’s presidential debate | Sara Chodosh | October 23, 2020 | Popular-ScienceThe retirement plan for Our Lady of Fatima, which 2,700 past and current hospital employees were counting on, had been woefully underfunded since 2008.
Investors Extracted $400 Million From a Hospital Chain That Sometimes Couldn’t Pay for Medical Supplies or Gas for Ambulances | by Peter Elkind with Doris Burke | September 30, 2020 | ProPublica
The newly free country struggled to maintain order in the wake of independence, but it was woefully unprepared.
His last words, or so they say, were woefully self-indulgent: “Why me, Johnny Lazia, who has been the friend of everybody?”
The penniless Pieret announced his intentions of stealing more art from the woefully guarded Louvre to make more money.
That is woefully short of what ISIS needs, and they know it.
We Americans are so woefully unaware when it comes to the history, and the specifics.
Jonathan Demme on Gaza, Transphobia in ‘The Silence of the Lambs,’ and Meryl Streep as a Rock Star | Marlow Stern | July 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 1864 the railway was in a very bad condition, wretchedly run down, and woefully mismanaged.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowThe bag, too, began to seem woefully full, and her stomach correspondingly empty.
The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch | Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) PorterYou imagine you have married a creature endowed with reason: you are woefully mistaken, my friend.
The Petty Troubles of Married Life, Complete | Honore de BalzacHe knows the British dislike of boasting, and that the American and the Britisher are woefully trusting.
Private Peat | Harold R. PeatThe papers seem to be woefully wrought up over the financial rating of Mr. Harry Lehr.
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