What is "wofully"

Usage examples of "wofully".

The young wives must find their lords wofully ignorant, in a large proportion of cases.

But the historians and novelists and poets and other keepers of human records have a pleasant, but not very honest way, of omitting practically all the essentials from their records and substituting glittering imaginings that delight the reader--and wofully mislead him as to the truth about life.

How wofully we have been, and are, misled by all upon whom we have relied as teachers.

He felt wofully lost and helpless, not daring to act or think for himself, more timid than a child when deserted by his nurse.

In the wild intoxicating pleasures of that new strange dream, she had been wofully unconscious of the truth.

The resources of the State were small, and these had been diminished wofully in succoring her neighbors, and in small border strifes, which the borderers might have been taught to manage for themselves.

He therefore often failed wofully in adaptation, and his sermons occasionally went off into rarefied realms of moral space, where nothing human existed.

He had now been in Formosa about two months and had studied the Chinese language every waking hour, but it was very difficult, and he found his usually ready tongue wofully handicapped.

And the terrible part of it is they succeed so wonderfully that philosophers like myself are apt to find our ratiocinations wofully mixed when we try to reason about the matter.

The empty frames of a few lodges stood like gaunt skeletons of human habitations, and Donald was gazing wofully at the sodden ashes of a campfire.

They have, to be sure, mistaken their own interests most wofully, and most wofully have they suffered the punishment due to their offences.

His confidence in the utility of the telegraph company was wofully shaken.