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