woeful

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• leave: I had just about enough stock, thankfully, and i'm not left holding anything too woeful that i over-ordered either.

Modifies a noun

• inadequacy: But the culpability of the west does not end with the lateness or the woeful inadequacy of its response to the crisis.
• ignorance: This tablet exposes woeful ignorance of the art of lettering.
• tale: A similarly woeful tale can be told of biology.
• lack: Sexual health has become the cinderella service of the NHS with a woeful lack of GUM clinics, many in a state of disrepair.
• attempt: Most of these people can remember the first and the woeful second attempt which didn't even reach a million sales in the UK.
• display: Do the players know how many kids they left in tears because of their woeful displays?

Modifying Another Word

• pretty: Drug packaging is, very slowly, improving but the standard is still pretty woeful.
• so: So woeful were Forest going forward that Neil Harris didn't get his first run on the ball until over half-hour had gone.
• totally: Default FreeBSD looks totally woeful when compared in this way to Redhat Linux.
• rather: The build-up's been huge and now along comes this rather woeful follow-up.
• too: I had just about enough stock, thankfully, and i'm not left holding anything too woeful that i over-ordered either.
• still: Given no assistance by Smith's wanderings, but still woeful, especially his passing.

Used with adjective complement

• look: Although Ciren showed the occasional spark up front they looked woeful at the back.