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woefully

adverb as in sorely

adverb as in sorely

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Intellectual curiosity - even about steak preference was woefully lacking.

From Salon

To simply think the value will magically come back to you is to be woefully undereducated in the realities of our world.

From Salon

I followed up a couple of weeks later, and he said he was woefully behind.

For a country that loves to shout “We’re No. 1,” we’re woefully behind the rest of the world when it comes to electing female leaders.

Labour had pledged to reform mental health legislation in its election manifesto - branding existing laws, drawn up in the 1980s, as "woefully out of date".

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

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