lamentable

her open prejudice showed lamentable immaturity.

the three months of coalition government were a lamentable political parenthesis.

the facilities provided were lamentable, not merely basic but squalid.

lamentable lack of communication

lamentable state of affairs

lamentable condition of the building

lamentable failure to act

lamentable outcome of the project

When I had narrated his lamentable death I ceased.

He'd been mistreated even by the lamentable standards of the time, refused food until he nearly starved to death.

That was the most lamentable of her numerous frustrated undertakings.

There are, however, many reasons for a fact so lamentable.

Nothing made him desist except his own lamentable state of demoralization.

You have not, I hope, learned to despise my pipe and my lamentable tobacco?

Yours, I understand, is the lamentable consequence of venery

The poverty of human understanding of ocean circulation, compared with that of the atmosphere, is therefore lamentable.

Though she narrated the lamentable story as gaily as possible Gray's face assumed an expression of sullen melancholy.

The campaign for more physical beauty seems to be both a tremendous success and a lamentable failure.