Definition of "lamentably" []

• Regrettably. In a manner deserving or inspiring lamentation. (adverb)

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• "Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Friday ordered the civil service to implement a new affirmative action campaign to boost what he called a lamentably low number of women employed in the public sector."
• "The answer of "neither," lamentably, is not available."
• "But, lamentably, that is not the political world we inhabit."