Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Mourned for: our late lamented president.
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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of lament.
- adj. mourned for, or grieved for
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Mourned for; bewailed.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. mourned or grieved for
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Examples
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"The Inuit language for 10,000 years never had a word for 'robin,'" McCain lamented, "and now there are robins all over their villages."
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Guerin lamented his team's tendency to take penalties.
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Of course not; this is exactly what Galton and Darwin lamented in the upper classes.
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When asked about China†™ s | one-child policy, for example, Hardin lamented that the Chinese government did not go far enough.
Think Progress » Hume: A Preemptive Strike on North Korea Would Be a ‘Successful Strategy’
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When asked about China†™ s | one-child policy |, for example, Hardin lamented that the Chinese government did not go far enough!
Think Progress » Hume: A Preemptive Strike on North Korea Would Be a ‘Successful Strategy’
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(The critic Jason Epstein lamented this when I saw him not long ago in New York.)
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So the captain lamented, standing in the cockpit and surveying the ruin with wet eyes.
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Lord Malden again lamented that he had engaged himself in the intercourse, and declared that he had himself [Page 166] conceived so violent a passion for me that he was the most miserable and unfortunate of mortals.
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Reacting to the governor’s footdragging, Nagin lamented: “It would have been great if we could of left Air Force One, walked outside, and told the world that we had this all worked out.”
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We need but recall the lamented Maceo, the Negro chieftain, whose tragic end brought sorrow and dismay to all of Cuba.
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