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sorely

/sawr-lee, sohr-/US // ˈsɔr li, ˈsoʊr- //UK // (ˈsɔːlɪ) //

痛心地,痛心疾首地,痛心疾首,痛心

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a painful manner.
    • : extremely; very: I was sorely tempted to report him.

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Examples

  • Some brokers delivered a sorely needed product while making a nice profit.

  • With AI cracking one problem after another, deploying it to help foster some romance in a place where romance is sorely needed may not be the worst idea.

  • To manage at this phase, we’ll need strong testing capacity, which we are still sorely lacking in many regions.

  • It’s hard enough running a university without also having to run a cemetery, especially one sorely lacking in funds.

  • These are just some of the ways in which a global democratic coalition could advance rules that are sorely lacking in the digital sphere.

  • For so many reasons she will be sorely missed, and we can only hope that the next generation produces another Yuri Kochiyama.

  • Sorely missed talent, of course, only goes so far in ramping up excitement for a new sitcom.

  • If Karzai thinks his drift towards the Taliban will buy him forgiveness, he is sorely mistaken.

  • Many times when I have been in sorely trying situations, the memory of that little one has come into my mind, and has buoyed me.

  • Such change at the top of the FDNY could dramatically affect a department many accuse of sorely lacking in diversity.

  • These hills, if we have to mount them, shall sorely try the thews of horse and man.

  • Railway expectations ran high; immense traffic receipts, sorely needed, ought to have swelled the coffers of the companies.

  • The position tried him sorely, testing his new strength from such amazing and unexpected angles.

  • Let alone its being months behind the fashion, it was frayed around the bottom and the front breadth was sorely stained.

  • Randolph himself was very sorely bested, but he succeeded in killing the commandant; whereupon the garrison gave in.