woefully

How To Use woefully 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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