Definition of "laments" []

• Plural form of lament. (noun)

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• "This whole episode reminds me of a poem we did at primary school called The Twins by Henry S Leigh where the hapless twin laments, … I put the question fruitlessly to everyone I knew."
• "McCain laments that all anyone wanted to talk about on the tour for her book, "Dirty Sexy Politics," was Palin."
• ""Why," Epstein laments, "cannot I, even so late in the day, grow into one of those admirable fellows — reasonable, tolerant, generous-spirited, honorable — that Jefferson called 'natural aristocrats' and that a liberal arts education is supposed to form but almost never does?""