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woefully

adverb as in sorely

adverb as in sorely

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mental health legislation in its election manifesto - branding existing laws, drawn up in the 1980s, as "woefully out of date".

From BBC

I woefully underestimated the difficulty of the rigged three-point basketball shootout, and she, likewise, misjudged her stomach’s resilience after we went on an irresponsibly fast rotating roller coaster.

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