lament
Example Sentences
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He lauded the strong third-quarter growth report, then lamented that markets often sell off on good news in anticipation of the Fed raising interest rates to avoid inflation.
An email chain among federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York lamented the disorganized documents shared by the FBI.
"You've gone from all you that could be to all that you once were," he laments on Slow Jam.
From BBC
"It's like changing the rules in the middle of a game," Ameh lamented.
From Barron's
On the eve of the Civil War, the Columbian Register lamented the growing likelihood of “the stars of our political firmament” being “torn from their orbits, and plunging madly about, or tilting one the other.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
