Definition of "lamentable" []

• Inspiring or deserving of lament or regret; deplorable or pitiable. See Synonyms at pathetic. (adjective)

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• "She pointed to what she called lamentable living standards and unbelievable corruption in this country that supplies the U.S. with crude oil."
• "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."
• "The children were crying with hunger in lamentable fashion."