lamentable
IPA: ɫʌmˈɛntʌbʌɫ
adjective
- Causing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing.
Examples of "lamentable" in Sentences
- The death of the old man is lamentable.
- Pleasant in the beginnings, but lamentable in the end.
- It was an amusement and a lamentable way to promote myself.
- The children were crying with hunger in lamentable fashion.
- But their lamentable ignorance is no reason to change the page.
- A lamentable limitation of the tool will not be not excused anymore.
- Last week's Hoon-Hewitt coup has been described as a lamentable failure.
- She pointed to what she called lamentable living standards and unbelievable corruption in this country that supplies the U.S. with crude oil.
- Viewed as it stood in the reality, as he was and as it was, the enterprise, since it proved so unfortunate, may be called lamentable, but cannot be called unnatural.
- British manufacturing activity rose to its highest level in more than two years in December, buoyed by a sharp jump in new orders, a closely watched survey showed Last week's Hoon-Hewitt coup has been described as a lamentable failure.
- It was a painting, impregnated with ancient mysticism, representing the figure of Jesus with eyes closed, forehead bloody, expression lamentable and dead; the head seemed to be cut off, separated from the body, and placed there on a gray linen cloth.
- He also pointed out the damage always caused by internal friction in the nation's sports administration, describing as lamentable a situation where the ministry and the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) are always at loggerheads in the build-up to major competitions.
- Hence what she describes as the lamentable four-year period of "apostasy" forced upon Shakespeare after The Merchant of Venice, during which he was obliged to abandon or temper his "elegantly encrypted appeals" before returning to them with a difference in Julius Caesar.