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Lamentable   /ləmˈɛntəbəl/   Listen
Lamentable

adjective
1.
Bad; unfortunate.  Synonyms: deplorable, distressing, pitiful, sad, sorry.  "A lamentable decision" , "Her clothes were in sad shape" , "A sorry state of affairs"






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"Lamentable" Quotes from Famous Books



... lamentable ignorance! Lady Alice, will you take compassion on us? No?—then we must ...
— A Crooked Path - A Novel • Mrs. Alexander

... all this, or at least more lamentable, is the fact that it need not be. The soils of Virginia need not have become worn out and abandoned; because the earth and the air are filled with the elements of plant food that are essential to the restoration and permanent maintenance of the high productive capacity of these soils. ...
— The Story of the Soil • Cyril G. Hopkins

... him," said Jack, "that it was most lamentable, but might have been worse—as I intended it should be," added Jack, with a grin. He then asked me had I heard of that good Free Quaker, Colonel Forest, who had taken Major Campbell, saying, "I advise thee to surrender, or thou wilt repent it, d—- thee!" to the delight of Hamilton, ...
— Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker • S. Weir Mitchell

... last sentences, it must be owned, are lamentable digressions; for we have not yet stated what the extraordinary thing was. It was not in the least degree extraordinary that the servants should all find out the secret of Laura's heart; for her eyes told it every time that she ...
— The King's Highway • G. P. R. James

... disasters multiplied. Dark and the rain had transformed the farce into something else. It was five-thirty when at last he reached The Firs, and the garden of The Firs was filled with lamentable complainings of a remnant of geese. His man Pond met him with ...
— Tales of the Five Towns • Arnold Bennett


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