0 in an unhappy way: --
"He's gone away for six months," she said sadly.
1 in a way that is not satisfactory: --
3 in a way that is very bad or unsatisfactory: --
If you think she doesn’t care, you’re sadly (= completely) mistaken.
Sadly some of them say more about the generosity of their authors than they contribute to an understanding of their subject.
Sadly, however, although these conundrums provide underlying and recurrent themes, they are rarely made explicit.
Sadly this book does so only in a very limited way, albeit not without value in itself.
Sadly, there were too many to include here, and it was a difficult task to select the few that are published in the following pages.
My wardrobe has, sadly, never been kept to the same standards.
Sadly, this comprehensive topographic database has been overlooked by the author.
Sadly, she only read a dozen or so pages.
Sadly, there appears to be a limited number of investigators doing this important work.
