lamentable

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  1. adjective Inspiring or deserving of lament or regret; deplorable or pitiable. See Synonyms at pathetic.

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  • Just as lamentable are the hopes in any mythical uprising in Egypt. —  Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf: Eastern Orientation or Eastern Policy
  • Accounts here became quite lamentable, the deficit reaching five thousand dollars. —  Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897
  • As for AIDS, this dramatic, lamentable, and horrible infection is simply the horrific CONSEQUENCE of individual freedom to pursue his / her sexual whims and / or proclivities ... —  Home
  • While the songs themselves ranged from pretty good to tolerable on down to lamentable, the studio craft they were mired in obscured the qualities that made them identifiable as such. —  Playback:stl Syndication
  • And, in some sense, lamentable -- perhaps especially in Shorter's case, as he is having his most creatively fertile decade since the 1960's and his current working quartet —  Secret Society
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deplorable ·  piteous ·  appal ·  frightful ·  shameful ·  disastrous ·  tragic ·  humiliate ·  ludicrous ·  dismal ·  grievous ·  calamitous
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  1. from French lamentable = Spanish lamentable = Portuguese lamentavel = Italian lamentabile, lamentable, from Latin lamentabilis, mournful, from Latin lamentari, mourn, lament: see lament, v.
 

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