Sentence examples for lamentable excuse from inspiring English sources
SIR —Your sober reflection on the "criminal negligence of Mr. Bush's administration" ultimately offers the lamentable excuse that if only the war had been undertaken with "humility, honesty and courage," it might have turned out differently.You are badly mistaken.
I am worse than all those people whingeing in Throckmorton and Bicester with their lamentable excuses, worrying in the local paper about asylum-seekers 'not having anything to do'.
Suarez's attempt at a belated apology is lamentable".
Lord Ouseley also said Reds striker Suarez's apology was "lamentable".
I excused myself, muttering something about the lamentable credit crunch.
Efforts at education and prevention have been lamentable, an omission for which the ANC has no excuse.
It provided millions of Americans with excuses for their own bad habits and lamentable behaviors, as well as opportunities for redemption -- all of which were denied to people in prison or on death row.
"The recession is not the excuse to row back on public-service reforms... lamentable failure to get our message across... YouTube if you want to... [on the Gurkhas] we put ourselves on the wrong side of the British sense of fair play".
"That would be lamentable".
"The result was lamentable.
