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Meanings of sadly in English
Portuguese
descontentemente Spanish
desgraciadamente Portuguese
lamentavelmente Synonyms
Examples for "woefully"
Examples for "woefully"
1
Thus Coop's freedom to hold morally admirable but woefully underpaid aid jobs.
2
Yet we must remain concerned that these figures are still woefully low.
3
The energistic effect downgraded their electronic systems to a woefully inferior state.
4
I imagine you already know how woefully I have missed the point.
5
I'm simply saying that the priorities of our people are woefully misplaced.
1
The funds of the Steam-committee have been lamentably mismanaged in this instance.
2
This too was natural: the ten tribes had been always lamentably irreligious.
3
So at last into the casket the monster went, bellowing most lamentably.
4
The spirit may indeed be willing, but the flesh is lamentably weak.
5
The number of women who have excelled in mathematics is lamentably small.
1
The supply of arms, it is true, was deplorably deficient in 1861.
2
We American women are so deplorably lacking in this kind of experience.
3
Society as a whole was deplorably lacking in imagination, intellect and taste.
4
This is the portion so deplorably slurred by these old monkish writers.
5
All are as deplorably human as the degraded peoples who devised them.
Usage of sadly in English
1
Without new technology, however, record breaking attempts are liable to end sadly.
2
Heart Beat: The problems besetting our health service, sadly are not new.
3
But to that simple question, sadly, there may be no simple answer.
4
But can danger be liquidated - that's the question.' Sukhoi grinned sadly.
5
However, we sadly neglect the privilege we're given in Ireland with ingredients.
6
Using crime to delegitimize a civil rights movement, sadly, is not new.
7
It is a hope sadly belied by the reality on the ground.
8
It is very sadly a rotten apple situation here, said Michael Spencer.
9
He was working on a new novel which will sadly remain unfinished.
10
She says long term maintenance on the road has been sadly lacking.
11
His crime was a late and high tackle, his victim sadly predictable.
12
Beatrice smiled sadly; matters of life and death were in the air.
13
We miss you sadly, both in the House and in the Council.
14
Despite being a former sleuth, my sense of direction is sadly lacking.
15
Looking perplexedly at the disorder in the room, the mother whispered sadly:
16
Yes, sadly, once it has got a grip, there's not much hope.
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Spanish
Sadly through the time
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Australia
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