Usage examples (32)

• She pointed to what she called lamentable living standards and unbelievable corruption in this country that supplies the U.S. with crude oil.
• The children were crying with hunger in lamentable fashion.
• Last week's Hoon-Hewitt coup has been described as a lamentable failure.
• 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.