Adjective : a lamentable decision. From Dictionary.com.
The answer of "neither," lamentably, is not available. From Wordnik.com. [How To Lose An Argument On The Internet, Part I] Reference
But, lamentably, that is not the political world we inhabit. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Webb, Marty Peretz and our "serious" national security leaders] Reference
"lamentably" fond of amusement, "seeking it, undaunted, even in the cannon's mouth.". From Wordnik.com. [Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)] Reference
In mental acquirements she was lamentably deficient. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
Its range of passion and humour is lamentably narrow. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
It is lamentably bad judgment to act by any other rules. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
He had failed lamentably in his efforts to secure a practice. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
It is a point on which later architects went lamentably astray. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
It is lamentably true that such has not been the case since the war. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-Six Years in the Army] Reference
Mr. Lawe's humanity fell lamentably in my estimation when he stated, that. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
This is lamentably true, but there is no good reason why it should be so. From Wordnik.com. [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference
"Oh, there is nothing to grieve on," said he, mistaking me most lamentably. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Nor in the matter of leather alone were these Guardsmen lamentably lacking. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
Sometimes he would do excellently, and again he would "fall down" lamentably. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe in the Big League or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles] Reference
Locke's efforts at deduction fall lamentably short of the model set by Euclid. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
But their practical information about the island proved lamentably insufficient. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
Andy, but the Merry Andrew of the fag-end of the lamentably sundered second term. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
The number of female CEOs may be lamentably small, but we're starting to see progress. From Wordnik.com. [Weak Men, Strong Women] Reference
'De Secretis' fails lamentably when it comes to producing whirlwinds or men in armour. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
"Oh!" said Hoffland, trying to smile, but failing lamentably, "Mr. Denis is going to kill me!". From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
As you can tell from this book, I find intellectual property fascinating -- lamentably so perhaps. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
She could not let him fall so lamentably short of man's dignity, of man's estate, for his own sake. From Wordnik.com. [The Imperialist] Reference
Her face was lamentably pathetic as she looked into his and read there the desire for what she could not give. From Wordnik.com. [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference
We had the men, but in the matter of guns we were still lamentably weak; we could not compete with our enemies. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
Sydney and Melbourne are lamentably deficient in fishmongers 'shops similar to those which are so common in London. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
In addition to some particular cases spoken of more at length, the whole criminal code is now lamentably defective. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
"No use talking and exciting yourself," he said, for he could see the other's stock of strength was lamentably small. From Wordnik.com. [Afterwards] Reference
Decidedly, the Iranian judges are unrivalled when it comes to spreading confusion in a debate that is lamentably simple. From Wordnik.com. [Bernard-Henri Lévy: Iran, Sakineh: Compliments of Lewis Carroll] Reference
Indeed, in spite of its general beauty, Berlin is lamentably deficient in the modern and common-place article, sewerage. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
With means so lamentably inconsiderable had America declared war against a country whose arms were sweeping from the Spanish. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Our saddles and all our equipments were by this time lamentably worn and battered, and our weapons had become dull and rusty. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
The government and international donors continue to work out plans to forward economic development from a lamentably low base. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
From extensive experience, I am convinced, that a very large majority of emigrants are lamentably disappointed on reaching the shores of. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
Either their education or their common sense is lamentably deficient, or what is still worse, their mother was the wrong kind of a woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
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