Adjective : a woeful situation. ,woeful melodies. ,a woeful collection of paintings. From Dictionary.com.
Pure exhilaration is in woefully short supply at the movies. From Wordnik.com. ['Inglourious Basterds' wages a thrilling, powerful war] Reference
Americans remain woefully uninformed about modern-day Brazil. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » Brazil: “President Lula is a nerd”] Reference
Where we have failed woefully is in how we deal with our own staff, he says. From Wordnik.com. [Thanks For Telling Me What I Think « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
Doctors, hospitals and mental-health facilities are in woefully short supply. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
When I pointed out on another thread that the US intelligence agencies remain woefully short of staff competent in Arabic, Farsi, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Conservatives Bow to Industry, Block Amendment to Scan All Shipping Containers] Reference
Because, as I was rawther FORCEFULLY reminded this past week, my kids are kind of woefully underchored. From Wordnik.com. [Mom to the Screaming Masses] Reference
On the subject of facilities for football in Scotland, which McLeish described as woefully inadequate, Lennon retorted: "Facilities?. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Dakota County Attorney Jim Backstrom said the state's public defenders are "woefully" underfunded after the cutbacks of the past two years. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
Mills has not failed 'woefully' - Jinapor. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
The star has been woefully underpaid, basically forever. From Wordnik.com. [Let Him Walk!!!] Reference
And, just as then, law enforcement is woefully unprepared. From Wordnik.com. [Global Mafia] Reference
Clinton was safe from the draft, but at a woefully heavy price. From Wordnik.com. [Sixties: Coming Of Age] Reference
The average investor is woefully underinvested in emerging markets. From Wordnik.com. [Beef Up With Risk] Reference
Compared with the newcomers, Yad Vashem soon seemed woefully outdated. From Wordnik.com. [UPDATING THE HOLOCAUST] Reference
He realized that his biblical education had been woefully insufficient. From Wordnik.com. [The Good, the Bad, the Bible] Reference
Even so, the government may be woefully unprepared to deal with the drug war. From Wordnik.com. [Nikolas Kozloff: U.S. Marines to Costa Rica: What's Behind the Story?] Reference
The bill's carbon pollution targets were set woefully below what science demands. From Wordnik.com. [Erich Pica: Five Takeaways From the Senate's Spill Bill] Reference
I happened to be there at Yankee Stadium, woefully unprepared for the deep freeze. From Wordnik.com. [NFL: Rough Justice] Reference
Eventually, it becomes clear that another finger is needed to plug the woefully leaky infodike. From Wordnik.com. [The Case For Hackers] Reference
During the trials, NBC even aired a clever, but woefully incomplete, graphic of his breakfast menu. From Wordnik.com. [MIGHTY MICHAEL] Reference
But estimates of how much carbon is locked into Arctic permafrost were, it turns out, woefully off. From Wordnik.com. [Climate-Change Calculus] Reference
You may not be located in an official flood plain, but federal flood maps are woefully out of date. From Wordnik.com. [Batten Down The Insurance] Reference
World War I gave the nation its first real taste of modern warfare -- and it was woefully unprepared. From Wordnik.com. [Americans Go To War] Reference
The main obstacle is that many classroom teachers are woefully undertrained in the newest techniques. From Wordnik.com. [Dyslexia And The New Science Of Reading] Reference
When I left the faculty for another assignment, we were up to about 33 hours, still woefully inadequate. From Wordnik.com. [As We Enter the Sixth Year in Iraq] Reference
When I left the faculty for another assignment, we were up to about 33 hours — still woefully inadequate. From Wordnik.com. [China for the World] Reference
And, "The Cosby Show" aside, there are still woefully few public examples of solid, stable black marriages. From Wordnik.com. [What Michelle Means to Us] Reference
The problem is DNA laboratories in the United States are so woefully underfunded they can't type enough cases. From Wordnik.com. [Getting Smart About Dna] Reference
"U.S. investors are generally woefully underexposed to opportunities that exist outside the United States," he says. From Wordnik.com. [To The Rich, From America] Reference
The brain has a woefully limited memory, it doesn't operate efficiently in a network and it's slow to download data. From Wordnik.com. [Merging Man And Machine] Reference
Still, in "Waiting for the Lady," Moore paints a memorable picture of a country woefully underrepresented in fiction. From Wordnik.com. [Lust And Democracy] Reference
But since the benefit was signed into law in December 2003, the Amex Pharmaceutical Index has woefully underperformed the S&P 500. From Wordnik.com. [Don’t Bet On the President] Reference
Score: 51Chris Matthews pummels woefully unprepared Obama backer Kirk Watson when the Texas pol can't name one Barack accomplishment. From Wordnik.com. [The Question is Elementary, My Dear Watson] Reference
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