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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sadly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sadly lacking
▪ These qualities are sadly lacking today.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
lacking
▪ Adequate resources and funding, both sadly lacking at present, are also vital.
▪ What is sadly lacking is the will to express such views and to act on them.
▪ It turns itself off if you leave it untouched for five minutes, a feature sadly lacking on the GameBoy.
▪ Your sister Alice was sadly lacking in that respect.
▪ As a lover he is sadly lacking, señorita.
▪ Again the evidence is sadly lacking, not only for the centres but also for the estates themselves.
▪ Their kind was sadly lacking in Nikol'skaia volost' in 1922.
▪ But one thing I do find sadly lacking is a middle-of-the-range clothes shop.
■ VERB
die
▪ Nick made a start at restoring the ravaged wreck, but sadly died before much was done.
▪ But we became the firmest of friends and kept in touch by letter afterwards until she sadly died.
▪ Meticulously prepared by Geoffrey Ashton who sadly died, aged thirty-nine, before its publication.
lack
▪ He is a true believer, but sadly lacks finesse.
look
▪ And, with those arch-weirdos speaking their lines with magnificent mock-seriousness, poor Jack looked sadly dull.
▪ Her little brother sobbed, and all of them looked sadly at Bill.
▪ I looked sadly at the sea, but stayed in my box, and after a while I fell asleep.
miss
▪ The pair were steeped in junior football in the area and are sadly missed.
▪ He will be sadly missed by all his colleagues.
▪ He is gone too soon and will be sadly missed by his family and friends.
▪ She will be sadly missed by her many friends and colleagues.
▪ Her creative teaching and training of movement technique and knowledge of all aspects of movement work will be sadly missed.
▪ Now that her mother has died, she sadly misses the interest and advice that was always forthcoming.
▪ I shall be sadly missed in the Mountains of Mourne.
mistake
▪ A large portion of diarrhoea twixt guard and dog proved how sadly mistaken the vet had been.
▪ The grunts out in the jungle thought we were always spiffy and clean, but they were sadly mistaken.
say
▪ No, they say sadly to the first question; and Yes, most definitely, to the second.
smile
▪ Lost for words, he looked shyly down at her, smiling sadly so that his dark eyebrows puckered into a frown.
▪ He smiled sadly, showing me his metal dentures.
▪ Shiva smiled sadly and asked why not but he knew he was being unfair to Adam as well as to himself.
▪ She smiled sadly and nodded in agreement.
▪ My mother stands, gathers up her sobbing offspring and, smiling sadly, approaches the entrance to my retreat.
think
▪ It was more like winter than late summer, Eline thought sadly.
▪ The napkins I had made her, I thought sadly, were also white on white.
▪ Merrill couldn't imagine quite how this would come about; nor would it bring Elise back, she thought sadly.
▪ He spent his time thinking sadly about his friends in Pentonville.
▪ Perhaps he'd always secretly resented giving his name to another man's child, she thought sadly.
▪ I was worth a try, Josie thought sadly.
▪ No chance, she thought sadly.
▪ And Mr Schofield's dead, Henry thought sadly, and that's that.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Sadly, Anne suffered from emotional problems most of her life.
▪ Sadly, this fine old theatre was destroyed by fire in 1993.
▪ Alice was rushed to hospital, but sadly she died two hours later.
▪ Low wages are sadly typical in service industries.
▪ Sam looked sadly out the window.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Along with her husband, she escaped to Britain in 1938 but, sadly, her marriage failed.
▪ From Tuesday weekly newspapers may be left with a burden which, sadly, many will be unable to carry.
▪ Nick made a start at restoring the ravaged wreck, but sadly died before much was done.
▪ The man nodded sadly as though Hicks represented a mode of behavior with which he was wearily familiar.
▪ There are also, sadly, some which are not so beneficial.
▪ This was all legal and proper, but in the execution of this work things went sadly wrong.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sadly

Sadly \Sad"ly\, adv.

  1. Wearily; heavily; firmly. [Obs.]

    In go the spears full sadly in arest.
    --Chaucer.

  2. Seriously; soberly; gravely. [Obs.]

    To tell thee sadly, shepherd, without blame Or our neglect, we lost her as we came.
    --Milton.

  3. Grievously; deeply; sorrowfully; miserably. ``He sadly suffers in their grief.''
    --Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sadly

c.1300, "heavily," also "solidly," from sad + -ly (2). Meaning "sorrowfully" is mid-14c.

Wiktionary
sadly

adv. 1 In a sad manner; sorrowfully. 2 unfortunately, sad to say.

WordNet
sadly

  1. adv. in an unfortunate way; "sadly he died before he could see his grandchild" [syn: unhappily] [ant: happily]

  2. with sadness; in a sad manner; "`She died last night,' he said sadly"

  3. in an unfortunate or deplorable manner; "he was sadly neglected"; "it was woefully inadequate" [syn: deplorably, lamentably, woefully]

Usage examples of "sadly".

I was astonished to be greeted in my antechamber by a young lady, who asked me sadly whether I remembered her.

He was tempted to promise the colonel any thing, but sadly, Batman shook his head.

Charlie Weller, who was allowed to bivouac with the veterans because they liked him, plucked a head of soaking wet rye and shook his head sadly.

His death was sadly, his resurrection joyously, celebrated every year at Byblus with great pomp and universal interest.

After supper the poor abbe went sadly away, and the count took me to my room, telling me that I could sleep securely in spite of the lack of keys for his sisters-in-law who were lodged close by were no better off.

I replied somewhat sadly that I did not feel myself at liberty to break my word, but that she could make me do even that if she chose.

After this I sat down sadly on the bed, and abandoned myself to the most melancholy reflections, from which Sara did not endeavour to rouse me.

Even Edi, the very best scholar, forgot his studies and was staring sadly before him.

Any other conception of the passage, any conscious endeavour to win a round of applause by elocutionary display, would disable the actor from doing justice to the great and sadly stirring utterance.

I am going to force the ancient usage of knight errantry beyond its limits and boundaries, then you are sadly mistaken.

If I cannot felicitate you upon the contract you are no doubt about to enter into, at least I can pray that you may not be too sadly disappointed in the character of the lady you mean to marry!

We went as quick as we might along the rolling road, among live forests and dead ones, smelling the stinks of distant fumaroles as though they had been the stinks of a body decaying, waking sadly in the mornings and walking the day through no happier, urgently going, driven by our own need to do whatever it was needed doing without any real hope that it would do any good at all.

Cockayne relates that the locksman at Teddington informed him how the bone of his little finger being broken, was grinding and grunching so sadly for two months, that sometimes he felt quite wrong in his head.

I should have been sadly boared in this dull place if it had not been for gaming.

When he had gone she said, sadly enough, that she was sorry he had deprived us both of our pleasure, and that she was sure Don Francisco was still hanging about the place, and that she dared not expose herself to his vengeance.