lamentable

Example Sentences

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Ella, whose innocent, concerned face shows an interest in reading her father’s moods, has picked up that a new horizon isn’t entirely lamentable.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

"I see it as a very lamentable dereliction of duty and of ambition and of focus and I would like to see next Welsh government change that," she said.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

"Local police and Spain's Civil Guard have begun investigating to try to clear up this lamentable event, in which everything points towards a robbery," read the post.

From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026

Some of them are plodding, while others put on full display the lamentable labor conditions that still dog much of the industry today.

From Slate • Sep. 6, 2023

And no one’s stopping, and she’s lying there on her back, a bulky fifty-odd woman in a poor-person green coat, gabardine, and lamentable shoes all cracked, her arms outflung.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood