lamentably

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"We will come into work and find patients really suffering – in pain, breathless, agitated or with nausea and vomiting. It is hard to over-state how lamentably badly-resourced palliative care services are."

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2025

The ones in Professor Shugerman’s essay, lamentably, are not even legally persuasive.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2024

Smith is very effective here and in later scenes after Peter escapes, and the actor brings feeling and intensity to a role that is lamentably short of nuance and character insight.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2022

Also, amid breezes from cooler regions, we enjoyed an atmosphere so invigoratingly dry it seemed the sort of meteorological gift that shows up so lamentably seldom in a Washington summer.

From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 2022

On the left were four small logs, one of them the farthest lamentably springy.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding