Woefully

"Woefully" in a Sentence (15 examples)

Librarians are woefully underutilized.

That's woefully inadequate.

At times like this, words are woefully inadequate.

Tom was woefully unprepared.

We were woefully unprepared.

They were woefully unprepared.

When school was dismissed and the children had gone Anne dropped wearily into her chair. Her head ached and she felt woefully discouraged.

to cry woefully

woefully inadequate

woefully incapable

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woefully ignorant

The attempt at diversity fell woefully short of dispelling straight stereotypes of us.

In our broken culture those who have experienced the training of the yogic ashram are often woefully ignorant in the ways of the university, and vice versa.

In a convulsion that has caught many in Brazil and beyond by surprise, waves of protesters denounced their leaders for dedicating so many resources to cultivating Brazil’s global image by building stadiums for international events, when basic services like education and health care remain woefully inadequate.

For international services, London's High Speed 1 route to the Channel Tunnel remains woefully underused.

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