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woefully
[ woh-fuh-lee ]
adverb
- 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.
Other 51Թ Forms
- ܲ·ɴDZ·ڳܱ· adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of woefully1
Example Sentences
The city’s firefighter union has long argued that the department is woefully underfunded.
While the film’s execution seems expert on the surface, the internal narrative design is unfortunately ham-handed and woefully dull.
Boasberg had dismissed the government's response to his order as "woefully insufficient".
Trump’s order casts the U.S. voting system as wildly outdated and woefully behind systems in other nations, and calls for the adoption of a new slate of nationwide voting standards.
At another hearing on Thursday, Judge Boasberg dismissed a government court filing on the migrant deportation flights as "woefully insufficient".
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