What's the difference between dolefully and woefully?
Dolefully
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, has said the remote scheme will require people to work five days a week, 12 months a year to get the dole, compared with the six months the government will require of benefit recipients in urban and regional areas.
(2) Job seekers will learn the behaviours expected of workers, for example by there being immediate consequences for passive welfare behaviour.” It says the continuous work for the dole for all 18- to 49-year-olds, is being introduced only in remote Australia, because in those areas there are “limited or no real labour markets, as well as unique social problems that stem from passive welfare.
(3) The core hypothesis deduced from the Dole-Nyswander blockade formulation is that methadone is a sufficient but not necessary condition for abstinence from heroin.
(4) Labor doled out some money for trades training centres in high schools and Abbott had money for netball courts in Caboolture.
(5) Even my mum has tales to tell of her time on the dole, and of welfare inspectors busting in at 7am to check that none of the members of her sharehouse were sleeping in the same bed, and thus fibbing about their relationship status on their claim forms.
(6) He announced the news in a series of doleful tweets, first asking Wiggins if he fancied a city break and then posting a picture of his Tour bike, claiming it was for sale.
(7) They are also, in practice, in support of arguments that claimants are on the fiddle with a net 17% more believing "most people on the dole are fiddling one way or another".
(8) Igor Sechin, the chairman of blacklisted, Kremlin-owned oil group Rosneft, has asked the government to dole out 1.5 trillion roubles (£25bn) to help the state-owned oil giant company refinance its debts.
(9) The Labour proposal is intended to be compulsory for the young unemployed after they have had a year on the dole, whereas work experience was voluntary for a week, and mandatory thereafter.
(10) The over-hyped and widely trailed Question Time has been an exercise in what it was always going to be: a public outpouring of anti fascist sentiments and establishing anti racist credentials, with the BNP positioning itself as the champion of white working class interests.The BBC can pat itself on the back for its high viewing ratings when the count is done; the panellists can go back to what they were doing and the struggle for equality, fairness and justice will intensify, not on television, but on the streets, the estates, in the playgrounds, the workplace and the dole queues.
(11) In that case, requiring people to work for the dole and apply for 40 jobs a month is merely a pathway to demoralisation.
(12) The reformed RJCP will give job seekers the opportunity to be continuously engaged in work for the dole activities, five days a week, all year round – just like a real job.
(13) Some of the proposals would have had their own senate inquiries in the past,” he said, referring to planned changes such as stripping under-30s of dole for six months at a time, reviewing people who are on the disability support pension (DSP) and changes to the family tax benefit which are included in amendment bills 1 and 2 being examined by the senate.
(14) June Brown, the favourite to become the first soap actress to win the best actress Bafta for her role as EastEnders' doleful launderette attendant Dot Branning, lost to Anna Maxwell Martin, who won her second Bafta in a row after last year's surprise win for Bleak House.
(15) This was an educator singing in a doleful prison cell; Seldon, the Birdman of Berkshire. "
(16) He was married with children, he'd been sacked from his job as a hosiery mechanic and like all sacked people, he was refused dole.
(17) Paul Kenny, GMB general secretary There is widespread revulsion that the government is deliberately adding to the dole queues at a time when the economy has not recovered from the "bankers recession".
(18) But Freeman doled out advice along with the punches.
(19) Despite worrying he would become a "professional dream smasher", he soon learned not to fret about the rejections he was doling out.
(20) And I look forward to him being a good president.” The video sought to remind the public of just how big an advocate Bush once was before he took to doling out what Rubio’s campaign dubbed as “phony attacks”.
Woefully
Definition:
(adv.) Alt. of Wofully
Example Sentences:
(1) The palace and the politicians expect a smooth succession to the reign of Charles III, even though he is a man who has spent his life demonstrating how woefully unqualified he is to be a constitutional king.
(2) Overall, the steps taken so far are woefully insufficient.” In November the Qatari ministry of labour issued a statement saying it was doing everything possible to improve working conditions.
(3) Bercow accused Hammond of a "woefully inadequate" and "utterly incompetent" performance after the shadow defence secretary, Jim Murphy , was forced to respond to a statement with no idea about which bases would close.
(4) The Nottingham Forest defender Kelvin Wilson was the unfortunate player, hopelessly miskicking an attempted clearance of Allan Nyom’s cross, enabling Ighalo to drive in his 15th goal of the season, but it was that sort of match: high on effort but woefully low on quality and goalmouth incident, until a final frantic few minutes.
(5) Arsenal need to play high, and he is woefully unable to play as part of a trap, or at least he has been this season.
(6) At least one analysis , from the left-leaning Center for American Progress, found the Republican plan would fall woefully short in providing coverage to individuals with preexisting conditions.
(7) Or its decision to limit Ofcom’s investigation into Rupert Murdoch’s Sky bid to the woefully inadequate 40 days.
(8) Funding shortages Other local bodies appear woefully unprepared.
(9) Decades of woefully inadequate information and communications technology curriculums in secondary schools have left academia perpetually five years (at least) behind the workplace, and they're only now trying to make up the ground.
(10) The force is woefully short of looking like the city it serves, and London’s ethnic minority population is 40% and forecast to grow.
(11) They set an export target of £1 trillion by 2020, but they are falling woefully short, and the latest figures show our balance of payments deficit is the highest on record.
(12) They also warn that too much of the NHS's infrastructure and practices are woefully unprepared for the growing numbers of frail elderly people and those with at least one long-term condition.
(13) Current systems for delivery of mental health services to children and adolescents are woefully inefficient, inadequate, and fragmented.
(14) A few minutes later, when the document was finally distributed among MPs, the speaker said: "The administration of this matter has been woefully inadequate and, frankly, utterly incompetent.
(15) But if I stay here, it’s just like my country … I need to go to Europe.” Risking death in the Mediterranean: the least bad option for so many migrants Read more In Misrata, a major Libyan port, coastguards told the Guardian that the smuggling trips would continue to rise because Libyan officials were woefully under-resourced.
(16) Public healthcare and education, in particular, remained woefully underfunded.
(17) With talented but underachieving home players including, most notably, the woefully disappointing Gini Wijnaldum once again failing to make the desired impact, it was left to the outstanding Matt Ritchie and his Bournemouth team-mates to leave McClaren’s immediate future shrouded in considerable uncertainty.
(18) The payments scheme, which NHS England has introduced to increase woefully low levels of dementia diagnosis, has been condemned as “odious” and “an intellectual and ethical travesty”.
(19) Rather, the minerals industry seeks only to create a more streamlined process in meeting environmental outcomes through the removal of unnecessary and costly duplication.” But this argument has been challenged by WWF , which attacks industry justification for the move as being based upon “woefully inadequate economics”.
(20) The group, which won a ruling against the government in the supreme court over its failures on air pollution last year, says the environment department’s recently published plans to cut pollutants fall “woefully short” of what the court ordered.