Dictionary entry

Woefully

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

(adv) woeful

Definition

woeful /'wǝƱfl/ adj ( fml ) ၁။ ဝမ္းနည္းပူေဆြးေနေသာ။ ရင္ကြဲ ပက္လက္ျဖစ္ေနေသာ။ a woeful cry/ look/ sight. ၂။ ဆိုးရြားေသာ။ စိတ္ပ်က္ဖြယ္ေကာင္းေသာ။ display woeful ignorance. woefully /-fǝli/ adv : The preparations were woefully inadequate.

Examples

  1. ‘Coinciding with this woeful happening
  2. a howling wind blew dreadfully.’
  3. ‘Talked to Sherri this time and relayed my woeful tale.’
  4. ‘His face was grotesque
  5. but only to the extent that the embossed lines in several shades of ice depicted some terribly misshapen and woeful beast.’
  6. ‘He used to draw woeful crowds
  7. especially to the Square above.’
  8. ‘He sounded so woeful
  9. his expression so longing
  10. that I had felt sympathy for him.’
  11. ‘He felt a tug on his heart as he watched her face
  12. her woeful expression silhouetted by the moonlight.’
  13. ‘He turns to Cymry and widens his eyes
  14. giving her such a droll
  15. woeful and aghast look all in one that she starts laughing anew.’
  16. ‘But for manufacturers to use their idling workforce to their own ends reminds us of the beggar's use of the woeful dog he has just kicked.’
  17. ‘I said
  18. giving him a woeful look behind my entirely smeared mascara.’
  19. ‘He was a woeful man altogether
  20. letters here
  21. there and everywhere and it would have been a fair auld job to write one of his usually long letters.’
  22. ‘Yes
  23. there has been woeful carnage and suffering aplenty.’
  24. ‘Owen Hughes says Tuesday night was a pathetic and woeful effort which he was extremely embarrassed and angry about.’
  25. ‘His main challenge will be to draw down sufficient funds to bring about a dramatic change to the woeful state of the country's infrastructure.’
  26. ‘The initial baking was fine
  27. but my decoration was woeful.’
  28. ‘The answers lie in stiff competition in their domestic markets
  29. in woeful mismanagement
  30. even the collapse of some businesses.’
  31. ‘With the game being a drudgery of spilled balls
  32. abject kicking and woeful execution of the few scoring opportunities that were created the mind wandered.’
  33. ‘I was later to learn that my track positioning was woeful as I was pointing the kart out of corners instead of vice-versa - or was it the other way round?’
  34. ‘The committee concluded that the paper trail on this whole sorry transaction was woeful.’
  35. ‘What's really repellent about the editorial
  36. though
  37. isn't just the woeful inaccuracies.’
  38. ‘His positioning is woeful
  39. as is his decision-making.’