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
- ‘Coinciding with this woeful happening
- a howling wind blew dreadfully.’
- ‘Talked to Sherri this time and relayed my woeful tale.’
- ‘His face was grotesque
- but only to the extent that the embossed lines in several shades of ice depicted some terribly misshapen and woeful beast.’
- ‘He used to draw woeful crowds
- especially to the Square above.’
- ‘He sounded so woeful
- his expression so longing
- that I had felt sympathy for him.’
- ‘He felt a tug on his heart as he watched her face
- her woeful expression silhouetted by the moonlight.’
- ‘He turns to Cymry and widens his eyes
- giving her such a droll
- woeful and aghast look all in one that she starts laughing anew.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘I said
- giving him a woeful look behind my entirely smeared mascara.’
- ‘He was a woeful man altogether
- letters here
- there and everywhere and it would have been a fair auld job to write one of his usually long letters.’
- ‘Yes
- there has been woeful carnage and suffering aplenty.’
- ‘Owen Hughes says Tuesday night was a pathetic and woeful effort which he was extremely embarrassed and angry about.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘The initial baking was fine
- but my decoration was woeful.’
- ‘The answers lie in stiff competition in their domestic markets
- in woeful mismanagement
- even the collapse of some businesses.’
- ‘With the game being a drudgery of spilled balls
- abject kicking and woeful execution of the few scoring opportunities that were created the mind wandered.’
- ‘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?’
- ‘The committee concluded that the paper trail on this whole sorry transaction was woeful.’
- ‘What's really repellent about the editorial
- though
- isn't just the woeful inaccuracies.’
- ‘His positioning is woeful
- as is his decision-making.’