Jeremy Corbyn

A national investment bank can invest to provide us with the foundations of shared and ecologically sustainable growth: renewing the U.K.'s energy, digital and transport infrastructure which lags woefully behind other major economies.

British Politician

Lauren Groff

The darkest period of my life, so far, arrived the summer I was pregnant with my eldest son. The future was growing in me with all of its terrifying unpredictability, and I found myself anxious, unable to work and woefully at sea.

American Novelist

John McCain

We all know spending levels for defense and other urgent priorities have been woefully inadequate for years. But we haven't found the will to work together to adjust them.

American Politician

D. H. Lawrence

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

English Writer

Gerald F. Lieberman

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

American Writer

Kirsten Gillibrand

I'm grateful that President Trump is willing to talk about paid leave, but his policy, unfortunately, is woefully inadequate.

Geena Davis

There are woefully few women CEOs in the world, but there can be lots of them in films.

American Actress

Damon Galgut

I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.

South African Playwright

Lionel Shriver

Over my lifetime, heavy usage has woefully eroded profanity's power.

American Journalist

Bing Crosby

My golf is woeful but I will never surrender.

American Musician

Use 'woeful' to describe deep sadness as if it's consuming a person or thing.

Profound Gloom

Apply 'woeful' when something can't be fixed, emphasizing the extent of its bad state.

Beyond Repair

'Woeful' evokes powerful feelings, suitable in situations that are emotionally charged.

Strong Emotion

Use 'woeful' when you want to convey the strong emotional effect something has.

Emotional Impact

Choose 'woeful' to evoke sympathy or to show commiseration with someone's situation.

Sympathy Invitation

Use 'woeful' to criticize without using harsher words that might insult.

Critique Without Insult

Avoid using 'woeful' in contexts where something positive is being described.

Not For Praise

Convey mild disapproval of an action or result without being overly critical by using 'woeful'.

Mild Disapproval

 connected to their sources, so that people and algorithms can better judge what is credible. And educators around the world are testing different techniques for finding ways to make people critical of the content they consume. All of these efforts are wonderful, but they're working in silos, and many of them are woefully underfunded.

How you can help...

 and that our Sun's life is also finite. While Mars and all the movies made in its name have reinvigorated the ethos for space travel, few of us seem to truly realize that our species' fragile constitution is woefully unprepared for long duration journeys into space. Let us take a trek to your local national forest

How humans could evolve...

 During the course of these decades where these kits sat in that warehouse, we discovered there had been multiple changes of police leadership, with different priorities and different agendas. There was woefully inadequate training for sex crimes officers in the police department in general.

What happened when we...

 The publish or perish mindset can also compromise academic journals' traditional peer-review processes which are safety checks where experts examine submitted papers for potential shortcomings. The current system, which might involve only one or two reviewers, can be woefully ineffective.

Is there a reproducibilit...

 Or you could pay eight times the going rate for something called a lightning call. But, lightning struck rather slowly in our country in those days, so, it was like about a half an hour for a lightning call to come through. In fact, so woeful was our telephone service

Why nations should...

 But with this love comes heartache. Now that groupers and snappers are woefully overfished, fishermen are targeting parrotfish. Spearfishing took out the large species, midnight blue and rainbow parrotfish are now exceedingly rare,

A coral reef love story...

 the physical immersion, the front end of games. But behind the scenes, the actual experiential reality of a game world has remained woefully limited. I'll put that in perspective for a moment. I could leave this theater right now,

The transformative power...

 Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation

"All the World's a...

 Developing vaccines for common infections, meanwhile, can help prevent disease in the first place. The biggest challenge to all these approaches is funding, which is woefully inadequate across the globe.

How can we solve the...

 was unique much of the city lies below sea level and despite years of warning the city was woefully unprepared to handle a breach of the levees which kept it dry but we are still vulnerable