lamentable

Thus did they avoid being entrapped into negotiations which could only prove the most lamentable of comedies.

Without food and drinking water their condition was lamentable.

Lamentable errors like this occurred in various parts of the country at this time.

The way to the lake was marked by fresh and lamentable tokens of the sufferings of slaves.

It was a lamentable series of bottomless pockets, socks full of holes, and shirts without buttons.

Among those who do undoubtedly profit by Christs work there is a lamentable and culpable lack of interest in His person.

Indolence is a prevailing vice, and its lamentable effects are everywhere visible.

On the next morning, the 15th of September, we were in a lamentable plight.

The arch-pirate himself came charging out of the marsh-grass in time to witness this lamentable disaster.

The first was of a woman, a poor being, sagging with overwork, a lamentable baby in her arms.