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woefully

adverb as in sorely

adverb as in sorely

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Penelope could not help adding this tidbit of information, for with so much going on, the children had been woefully short on lessons.

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As one might expect, the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females had been woefully undersupplied with boys, and as a result Penelope had hardly met any in her life.

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To the extent Mr. Fuentes influences young people, it’s the same group of woefully disillusioned, overly online and increasingly lonely men already drawn to the darkest corners of the internet.

He believes the preliminary report was "woefully inadequate... embarrassingly inadequate".

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Upgrades to security at the world-renowned museum have been moving at a "woefully inadequate pace," added Piere Moscovici at a press conference as he presented his body's report on the Paris museum.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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