Sentence examples for lamentably bad from inspiring English sources

The ability to choose between caution and adventure assumes we can predict accurately – something we humans have been lamentably bad at.

We know how lamentably bad we are at doing what we know we should.

He does, however, have this to say: 'The space between knowing the good and doing the good is a region entirely inhabited by freedom … We know how lamentably bad we are at doing what we know we should' (p. 104), that is, that we are weak willed.

Former presidents of small, corrupt nations do not, lamentably, have many bad weeks.

His vision was that the nation's culture was a "pyramid with a lamentably broad base and a lamentably narrow tip".

Lamentably, Estonia has had to introduce import tariffs and agricultural subsidies, two bad habits which its zealously free-trading government had scorned in the early years of reform.

He fails lamentably.

Short answer: lamentably.

The developing world remains lamentably underinsured.

Congo had become a lamentably failed state.

"Lamentably," Mr. Gaspar said, "luck eluded him".