What's the difference between woefully and wofully?
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.
Wofully
Definition:
(adv.) In a woeful manner; sorrowfully; mournfully; miserably; dolefully.