woefully
Use Woefully in a sentence
fəl
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Woefully
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
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woeful (ˈwəʊfəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | expressing or characterized by sorrow |
| 2. | bringing or causing woe |
| 3. | pitiful; miserable: a woeful standard of work |
| 'woefully | |
| —adv | |
| 'woefulness | |
| —n | |
| woeful (ˈwəʊfəl) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | expressing or characterized by sorrow |
| 2. | bringing or causing woe |
| 3. | pitiful; miserable: a woeful standard of work |
| 'woefully | |
| —adv | |
| 'woefulness | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
They can, the fact that you underestimate them so woefully, is proof positive of how little you understand the situation.
Some argue that governments can help a lot by getting out of the way in what has been a woefully distorted market.
But, what is clear is that our federal electronic privacy laws are woefully outdated.
As he explained it, the actual retrieval process would be woefully slow and probably inaccurate.
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