How To Use Woeful In A Sentence

Dudgeon made himself look like a schoolboy as he woefully mistimed a header on the half-way line.
Public expenditure on the arts is woefully inadequate.
They displayed woeful ignorance of the safety rules.
Let's not forget Jackson's woeful job on the script.
Then there is the country's woeful provision of cheap, child-friendly restaurants.

Education may be better by local standards but is woeful by international standards. Times, Sunday Times
The language of brotherly love was not so easy to speak as he had supposed and was woefully short of imperatives. DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
Not that I mind so much working late on a Friday, since it helps to keep my mind occupied and prevents me contemplating my woeful lack of a meaningful social life.
So he drave out to Miriam, who ran at him with the best of her skill and charged him with the goodliness of her cleverness and her courage and her cunning in fence and cavalarice, crying to him, “O accursed, O enemy of Allah and the Moslems, I will assuredly send thee after thy brothers and woeful is the abiding-place of the Miscreants!” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Still, the Giants did fill a huge need by buttressing what were largely woeful special teams units with a lot of speed. Giants' Class Helps Solidify Special Teams
To be fair the quality of the outfield positions are excellent now but the goalkeepers are actually woeful.
By lawmakers' own admission, Ireland lagged woefully behind its Western counterparts when they introduced adoption legislation in 1952.
In the aftermath of a credit crunch, with banks across the world still woefully undercapitalised, still paying fortunes in bonuses and still not accepting the full write-offs on their pre-2008 lending, this is especially worrying. Don't blame the euro for the ills besetting Ireland's economy
He stopped and chatted and spoke of how this hard-won point just might be the kick-start Rangers need, the turning point in their woeful season.
They were young men with horn-rimmed glasses and bow ties and even younger women with long braids, some serious and others smiling, but all appearing woefully unprepared for life on China's harsh northwestern frontier.
The New Orleans Saints, a perennially woeful football team a run at the Super Bowl championship.
Most people have forgotten that Apple introduced its first handheld device back in 1993: the woefully bad Newton, which was about the size of a hard-bound Stephen King novel big! and had truly pathetic handwriting-recognition software - supposedly its biggest selling point. How they sell you what you don't understand
This is where I realized that my childhood, and indeed my life so far, has been woefully incomplete.
Ms Palin has disqualified herself from that responsibility by showing a woeful grasp of policy.
-- I have often, I said, fancied that, besides the load of exuvial coats and breeches under which he staggers, there is another weight on him -- an atrior cura at his tail -- and while his unshorn lips and nose together are performing that mocking, boisterous, Jack-indifferent cry of "Clo ', clo'!" who knows what woeful utterances are crying from the heart within? Catherine: a Story
Early indications suggested a woefully low turnout. Times, Sunday Times
I realize that Flower Markets are a dime a dozen, all over France, but they are woefully rare here in the US – and never with such a profusion of ranunculi, mimosas, and anemones! Que Faire a Aix-en-Provence? / What to do in Aix-en-Provence? - French Word-A-Day
The condition of some of the roads in the region is woeful.
After all the pre-match hype it was woefully disappointing. The Sun
I said, giving him a woeful look behind my entirely smeared mascara.
Given more time to contemplate the nature of his existence, Doug One suffers from a woeful identity crisis.
Christ his pattern, which it is his duty to express in his own; and he who takes up Christianity on any other terms doth woefully deceive his own soul. Pneumatologia
Do I write about how I have recently become a new man, or at least an old man with new possessions, or do I write about the recent woeful state of my blogging psyche?
He's also a terrible miser, hoarding gold in his attic while his poor young wife - who has agreed to the arrangement only to protect her woefully indebted father - wants for the smallest pat of butter.
Either you're woefully unprepared for a big test or you're naked.
What really galls me is that services for elderly people are woeful - disgraceful in fact - and these are people who have paid taxes all their lives.
I was later to learn that my track positioning was woeful as I was pointing the kart out of corners instead of vice-versa - or was it the other way round?
The funds tend to get away with their woeful performance because once investors have money in a fund they do not tend to move it. Times, Sunday Times
Determined to find a way to get myself to France, because my one day trip to St Malo during a family holiday to Jersey was clearly woefully inadequate for French oral purposes, I managed to find a penfriend through a magazine. French exchange
The brake pedal likewise; when fitted with anti-lock brakes, pedal response is woefully mushy.
It has always done - and might always do given the woeful lack of improvement. Times, Sunday Times
I feel woefully inadequate to even review their programme because they left me speechless and with only the ability to utter superlatives.
Why has that woeful lack of numbers in the middle not been addressed before a drama has turned into a crisis? The Sun
However, the reason it is truly grim is because it is badly sung (often woefully out of tune), poorly produced, and mixed in a food blender.
At times he came close to farce as he extolled its endless wonders as report after report detailed its woeful failures. Times, Sunday Times
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Drew Gooden left the Chicago Bulls and their losing record last month before spending a couple weeks in woeful Sacramento. USATODAY.com
the woeful plight of homeless people
The woeful lack of funding for troops has been an all too familiar theme. Times, Sunday Times
The hint of flare was woefully insufficient and so subtle bright red insets had to be added for extra width.
The humility in her woeful eyes almost disclaims the homespun excellence of her clothes.
I have no idea what to expect really, having only been to one very small convention before, and from which I think the most important thing I took away was the fact that I’m woefully disfluent in all things Doctor Who. 2010 Australian Specfic Snapshot: Stephanie Campisi
Only because of woeful finishing and ropey refereeing, though. The Sun
She has shown a woeful lack of judgment and should quit. Times, Sunday Times
Traditional concepts of security were woefully inadequate to meet the new challenges faced by humankind.
Hasan lay hidden beneath the settle, weeping-eyed and woeful-hearted, knowing not what was decreed to him in the secret preordainment of Allah. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
After spending time with Gina and contemplating my own woefully juiceless existence, I resolved to do something about it.
READERS gave their verdict on England's woeful performance on our website yesterday. The Sun
Intelligence about the enemy is woeful. Times, Sunday Times
United looked woefully short of menace in attack.
A shaming indictment of the woeful British attitude to sport at grassroots level, McKenna's story is difficult to believe.
The team's woeful record consists of six defeats in seven matches.
United looked woefully short of menace in attack.
He felt a tug on his heart as he watched her face, her woeful expression silhouetted by the moonlight.
I spoke to one Scottish applicant who appeared to be woefully oblivious to what the job actually entailed. Times, Sunday Times
The pulmotor and similar mechanisms are, perhaps, the best things the use of which can be taught to laymen; but as compared to bronchoscopic oxygen insufflation they are woefully inefficient, because the intraoral pressure forces the tongue back over the laryngeal orifice, obstructing the airway in this "death zone. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
On what might seem an unrelated note, the performance of American stock analysts was woefully inadequate in ferreting out and making public the all-too-obvious weaknesses in the mortgage securitization field, and the greed of all too many institutional investors in seeking “quick and unrealistic profits” was a major factor in creating the circumstances that led to the mortgage meltdown and the current recession. Writing the Whole Enchilada « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
Sent forth to ferret out the shadowy terrorists, U.S. troops would go woefully unprotected against biological weapons.
Even woeful diction can be excused, since, in the mad rush to expand radio, good announcers were not easy to come by.
The Pacers were woeful from the floor in the opening minutes - missing 14 of their first 18 shots - but Dunleavy did plenty to make sure Miami didn't open an early lead. USATODAY.com
The initial baking was fine, but my decoration was woeful.
The team's woeful record consists of six defeats in seven matches.
When the bizarre and woefully ugly characters of Royston Vasey experience thunderbolts and lightning in their beloved village, they begin to imagine it is the end of the world.
He is handsome, charismatic and a terrific actor, yet he really should have spent more time improving his English, which was woeful.
I spoke to one Scottish applicant who appeared to be woefully oblivious to what the job actually entailed. Times, Sunday Times
At times he came close to farce as he extolled its endless wonders as report after report detailed its woeful failures. Times, Sunday Times
Individuals and businesses appear woefully uninformed about this aspect of the information age.
But waefu '(woeful) and doolie (sadly) do I whisper to ye, Lias Laddie
The United States has woefully underfunded its national infrastructure, according to a bipartisan congressional commission, the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission.
From all this you are probably guessing that I am flailing around for excuses for a woeful underperformance this year. Times, Sunday Times
it was woefully inadequate
It's great to hear the inner-workings of Madsen, whom in my opinion, is quite unique and woefully unappreciated. /Film Boston - An Interview with Michael Madsen | /Film
After all the pre-match hype it was woefully disappointing. The Sun
Clueless and gutless is the tagline for this woefully inept administration and you betcha, I miss the dolt Bush. Obama will visit Gulf region
Individuals and businesses appear woefully uninformed about this aspect of the information age.
Sourav Ganguly, once legendarily dismissive of spinners but now woefully out of form, was dropped by Younis Khan at silly mid-off.
At a time when the job of protecting our food safety is woefullyunderfunded, the USDA has spent over $118 million on just the beginning stages of aso-calledvoluntaryprogram that ultimately seeks to register every horse, chicken, cow, goat, sheep, pig, llama, alpaca or other livestock animal in anational database -- more than 120 million animals. Today is the most TERRIBLE day in the history of US farming
Last weekend's wet, wild and woeful trip to gloomy south Wales did turn out to have a silver lining for at least one Borders player.
The England defender is currently sidelined with a damaged calf but his displays have been woeful this term. The Sun
A stuttering league campaign has seen only one win and a woeful tally of just six goals from eight matches so far. The Sun
The Hatters were truly woeful and rarely looked set to end their goal drought.
The language of brotherly love was not so easy to speak as he had supposed and was woefully short of imperatives. DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
It looks very much as if it was a woeful effort on December 26.
Health-care reform, his first hope, was woefully mishandled.
Those that do exist are woefully underfunded, especially compared to their peers that deal in political engagement. Christianity Today
News: MS marketing for XBLC games "woeful" - Clover/Tank Strike devs scream change. Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
Tuesday's installment was looking woefully predictable until North Carolina Dance Theatre hit the stage with Appalachian strings and a barnstormer aptly named "Shindig. Bluegrass pickin' perks up Ballet Across America's opening
In my view as a health researcher, the medical profession today stands woefully ignorant of dietary knowledge.
But then they just look shifty, as opposed to woeful. Times, Sunday Times
I feel it is high time that the county council reassessed its woeful decision to install those cursed traffic lights at Scale Hall corner.
The much-vaunted plot ‘twist’ stretches your credulity to the limit: suffice to say that in order to believe it, you would also have to believe that Skinner is woefully unobservant.
The United States has woefully underfunded its national infrastructure, according to a bipartisan congressional commission, the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission.
Now I'm thinking that I am woefully underprepared for an emergency of that magnitude.
And in fact, those standards have been dummied-down so much that students who are, you know, on track are often barely able to graduate from high school and are totally, woefully inadequately prepared for college. Students Quiz Education Sec. Arne Duncan
(I'm a terrible speller and my spell checker is woefully inadequate!) Bob McDonnell- Not Running a 1989 Campaign
But as a theoretical basis for the protection of these rights and freedoms, such ideas are woefully inadequate.
He will also witness bad pass after poor tackle and some woeful marking.
I heard no more of the exchange but this one remark was quite enough to establish his woeful ignorance about the theatre.
At times he came close to farce as he extolled its endless wonders as report after report detailed its woeful failures. Times, Sunday Times
His organisation's woeful track record speaks for itself. Times, Sunday Times
Even members of the forum admitted to the Sunday Herald this week that they were woefully ill-equipped for the task.
It was in woeful condition due and in danger of being lost, until the new owners decided to save it. Restoring The Turkel House
All these touches seem as woefully accurate as they always did, set against that banal English netherworld of market towns and motorway service stations.
woeful errors of judgment
How we die is an essential but woefully undiscussed element of how we live. Times, Sunday Times
They leak badly, have woeful change and shower facilities, and have antiquated pumping and filtration equipment.
Assume the past resembles the simple patterns and clear verities of myth and the stories we write and call history will be woefully incomplete, hopelessly simplistic, and shamefully neglectful of others who were there.
There are plenty of critics with woeful tales of upturned or lost caravans, and how they were held up for hours by tiny cars hauling huge caravans.
Zibi, who otherwise had a woeful game and had to make way for Shaun Haschick eight minutes from time, pounced on a John Maduka miskick to rifle home the winner in the 66th minute.
The committee concluded that the paper trail on this whole sorry transaction was woeful.
I was hitting the ball great, but my putting was woeful.
A lecture on Gall were woefully incomplete without some reference to the press, that "archimedean lever" and "molder of public opinion. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
Five tries should not be sniffed at, particularly in the context of Scotland's recent history, but they should have beaten this woefully unambitious and technically poor opposition by 60.
But that is the least of Wasps' worries after a woeful performance. The Sun
Peter informed his readers that, within a week of his first encounter with this woefully underutilized deverbal noun, someone else used it in this very thread. Open source theology - Comments
But he somehow contrived to scoop over the bar and then also fired another shot woefully off target. The Sun
No matter what the system is wheither it be islamic system or a democractic system, arab politicans will be woeful at doing both its fact a horrible and down earthing fact arabs cant do for nothing with the word politics in it! Egypt: Rage against the Mubaraks | Editorial
The pulmotor and similar mechanisms are, perhaps, the best things the use of which can be taught to laymen; but as compared to bronchoscopic oxygen insufflation they are woefully inefficient, because the intraoral pressure forces the tongue back over the laryngeal orifice, obstructing the airway in this "death zone. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
The rest of the performances are woefully underpowered. Times, Sunday Times
Although it may seem like we're saturated with credit cards these days, the bank claims we are woefully inadequate with our plastic when compared to the United States.
With the game being a drudgery of spilled balls, abject kicking and woeful execution of the few scoring opportunities that were created the mind wandered.
I have no money after barely managing to scrape the rent together last Friday, and my bank account is woefully overdrawn.
As adults, we should set a better example: the recent rise in drink-drive cases suggests a woeful attitude towards alcohol and the law.
This is simply untrue as kerygma and woefully inadequate for churches to teach as social ethics.
HE has to be, given his woeful record of two wins from 16 games in charge. The Sun
Pure exhilaration is in woefully short supply at the movies. 'Inglourious Basterds' wages a thrilling, powerful war
It has become woefully steeped in cliche for me in the last three episodes. True Blood--Again...Episode 9
Woeful immaturity is best described by those who are uncharitable in the face of suffering – that would be you … Think Progress » Rita Evacuation Exposes Class Divide
While being woefully underprepared overall, I'm at least semi-prepared for 4 of the 5 possible essays we'll have to write.
But on the fiends He fastened bonds of torment, and thrust them down into the depths of darkness, bitterly abashed, where darkly Satan rules, a woeful wretch, and with him the foul fiends, forspent with pain. Codex Junius 11
The vapid storylines and woeful acting just leave me cold.
She calls Pratt ‘woefully small and bigoted’ and mocks his ‘imposing avoirdupois.’
My woeful track record behind the wheel means I have reason to be more scared than most. Times, Sunday Times
But he has a woeful record making the running over this trip at this course. The Sun
Yes, it's a truly woeful collection that for some reason my mother decided to ship over to me here, the whole kit and caboodle.
It's a woeful indictment of a hopeless situation.
Only the woefully ignorant think that the term fossil is restricted to bones and other body parts that have become encased in stone. Think Progress
Early indications suggested a woefully low turnout. Times, Sunday Times
Pickering's woeful start continued when they slipped to their third defeat at Clifton Alliance but at least their batsmen began to show a semblance of form.
And the visitors played their part with a woeful display. The Sun
Hopefully, the pathetic and woeful situation that has been allowed to arise will bring people to their senses, at least on the playing side.
Let us not exclude from the discussion the third father of science fiction, a man as inventive of basic tropes and ideas of our genre as Wells, but woefully neglected: Olaf Stapledon. MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Antithetical to Religion?
His riffs on the starving in Africa, relationships, Jesus Christ and the woeful state of televangelism in America, and, ironically, drunk driving are still beloved of comedy fans everywhere.
At daybreak, the boats returned to the shore and the merchants busied themselves with buying and selling and the transport of the goods and gear till nightfall, whilst Hasan lay hidden beneath the settle, weeping-eyed and woeful-hearted, knowing not what was decreed to him in the secret preordainment of Allah. Arabian nights. English
While latching on to the up-country trend, the industry here found itself wrong-footed and woefully short of male dancing talents.
We boaters spend many times more dollars on our waterborne vessels than we do on our autos yet we are woefully unprotected when it comes to poor workmanship.
It's a costly ritual, and one that I begrudge, but it beats my woeful attempts with a needle and thread.
Owen Hughes says Tuesday night was a pathetic and woeful effort which he was extremely embarrassed and angry about.
How can we rely on our economists when they have such a woeful track record? Times, Sunday Times
Second, these attacks will prove woefully counterproductive for the terrorists.
They made the most of a woeful West Ham display. The Sun
One of her jobs was to pull together party headquarters in Glasgow at a time when it was in woeful disarray - a task at which she manifestly failed and was then sidelined.
One said: 'It displays woeful disregard for his family. The Sun
Early indications suggested a woefully low turnout. Times, Sunday Times
There has been a woeful lack of clarity and misleading language on both sides. Times, Sunday Times
For those of you who are woefully unhip to the ways of the Internet, this ancient tradition (adhered to by almost no one but me) means that the proprietor of the weblog is swamped and won't be posting much for a while.
Hylas, nor was the rapt of Polyxena more throbbingly resented and condoled by Priamus and Hecuba, than this aforesaid accident would be sympathetically bemoaned, grievous, ruthful, and anxious to the woefully desolate and disconsolate parents. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
In one dream world he stood, surrounded by either semi conscious or woefully unchivalrous government officers in a smoky, gutted building.
His main challenge will be to draw down sufficient funds to bring about a dramatic change to the woeful state of the country's infrastructure.
Performance in every instance fell woefully short of promise.
How fatal the consequences are! the hireling fancies the sheep may look to themselves, but it does not prove so: the wolf catches them, and scatters the sheep, and woeful havoc is made of the flock, which will all be charged upon the treacherous shepherd. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
He sounded so woeful, his expression so longing, that I had felt sympathy for him.
He used to draw woeful crowds, especially to the Square above.
But everyone present realized that had Graham soldiered on, most of the press questions would not be about policy ideas but instead would be focused on his woeful prospects for victory.
Possibly not the woefully inefficient BT, but certainly Gas and 'leccy companies. Their Own Worst Enemies
Throughout, a good set and props are woefully underused. Times, Sunday Times
Fiennes is woefully miscast as the darkly mysterious adventurer.
As a woeful season comes to its inevitable end, I can only cling to two pathetic certainties, one sad, the other hopeful.
He has been woefully ineffective in his attempts to construct the kind of latticework party structure that can help those who want to involve themselves in Conservative politics to climb to positions of influence. Struggle for Power: Canadian Politics 1972
The humility in her woeful eyes almost disclaims the homespun excellence of her clothes.
Returning to the main point, I fully agree that for those in the humanities to remain woefully ignorant of the sciences is to remain in the bleachers of an intellectual life.
The holders produced a woeful performance, being completely out-hurled, out-paced and out-thought by a far more committed Westmeath side.
And the incident has laid bare the woeful lack of facilities in Scotland for the proper treatment of offenders with mental disorders.
The knock-on effect is that the streets are sewers of foul-smelling rubbish and discarded flyers, with which the council seems woefully unequipped and disinclined to deal.
It summed up the hosts' woeful performance. Times, Sunday Times
While the first three films found fair to ingenious methods of circumnavigating this problem, the fourth is so unconcerned with feasibility that it resorts to woefully convenient schemes for recording the poltergeist's antics.
The result is countless thousands of adults who have a woeful ignorance of the past and consequently of how they and their times fit in. Times, Sunday Times
Many roads are in a woeful condition and need to be upgraded.
You see, even though "Mr. Grassley did some good after the Vioxx episode, by focusing on the woeful manner in which postmarketing drug safety is managed and regulated by the FDA," writes Thornton, who the Journal identifies as a former medical officer in the Office of Oncology Products at the FDA who "volunteers as president of the Sarcoma Foundation of America," the Senator "and his staff should have kept their eyes on the ball. Former FDA Officer Worries New Rules Will Curb Industry Profiteering
The intelligence agencies are woefully short of people fluent in Arabic, Farsi, and Urdu, and this is remediable.
We were woefully outmatched in numbers in this new mortal weapon of the air.
Anyone who chooses to stay at home with their kids is seen as woefully unambitious and deserving of contempt.
I have no money after barely managing to scrape the rent together last Friday, and my bank account is woefully overdrawn.
He turns to Cymry and widens his eyes, giving her such a droll, woeful and aghast look all in one that she starts laughing anew.
I feel it is high time that the county council reassessed its woeful decision to install those cursed traffic lights at Scale Hall corner.
His face was grotesque, but only to the extent that the embossed lines in several shades of ice depicted some terribly misshapen and woeful beast.
At times he came close to farce as he extolled its endless wonders as report after report detailed its woeful failures. Times, Sunday Times
In light of this record, Fein's assertion that Senator Kerry has committed a "constitutional dereliction" is not only wrong, but woefully unconstructive. Frederick L. Jones II: Bruce Fein Sullies the Debate on Our Role in Afghanistan
Haydn, even if marginally heavy-footed, is always a party for your ears and woefully underrated in this country.
The interior of the gallery had become woefully shabby, with dull grey walls, poor flooring and harsh fluorescent lighting. Times, Sunday Times
His first attempt is woeful. Times, Sunday Times
Is this really the moment for the grinning ninny to inflict his woeful attempts at some classic music moments upon the listening public?
Reliable cause of death statistics are woefully lacking for developing countries and of less than desirable quality for many developed ones.
Building work at a penthouse apartment in a luxury York flats development was ‘woefully inadequate’, a court heard.
These include 'waesome', meaning sorrowful, woeful; and 'brash', meaning attack. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
This represents a 33% underperformance in unleaded fuel efficiency, which is woeful. Times, Sunday Times

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