Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a woeful manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a woeful manner; sorrowfully; mournfully; miserably; dolefully.
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- adverb In a
woeful manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an unfortunate or deplorable manner
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Examples
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But David Mondragon says the government can help his company and the auto sector in general by scrapping Ottawa's $300 scrappage program for older cars, which he calls woefully inadequate.
unknown title 2009
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But David Mondragon says the government can help his company and the auto sector in general by scrapping Ottawa's $300 scrappage program for older cars, which he calls woefully inadequate.
unknown title 2009
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And while the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been crowing over its record number of deportations, it's suspiciously mum when it comes to the record number of detainees that still languish in woefully mismanaged detention facilities.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: Why Detention Reform is Desperately Needed The Media Consortium 2010
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Pure exhilaration is in woefully short supply at the movies.
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Where we have failed woefully is in how we deal with our own staff, he says.
Thanks For Telling Me What I Think « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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And while the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been crowing over its record number of deportations, it's suspiciously mum when it comes to the record number of detainees that still languish in woefully mismanaged detention facilities.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: Why Detention Reform is Desperately Needed The Media Consortium 2010
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Americans remain woefully uninformed about modern-day Brazil.
Global Voices in English » Brazil: “President Lula is a nerd” 2009
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Americans remain woefully ignorant about the true state of affairs in the world.
The Spineless Huffington Post Gives ‘Equal Time’ « Antiwar.com Blog 2008
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Further, early exposure to older styles of writing, with their deeper vocabulary and more complex sentence structure will open up doors that will remain woefully shut if a child reads nothing more than contemporary literature written within the past fifty years.
Dutch Trick or Treat Roger Sutton 2007
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Doctors, hospitals and mental-health facilities are in woefully short supply.
Balkinization 2007
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