Sentence examples for were lamentable from inspiring English sources

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were lamentable

adjective

Causing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing.

Exact(6)

Those measures were lamentable, but not irreversible.

Some of the ideas were lamentable.

And there were lamentable cases of self-destruction, as with the pathbreaking alto saxophonist Charlie Parker.

Evans said Thursday that the actions of his employees that night were lamentable.

One member of the five-family homeowners' association agreed that the results of the standoff were lamentable.

There were lamentable failures in the subsequent US occupation, which allowed the rise of the hideous sectarian violence that threatened to tear the country to pieces.

Similar(54)

"That would be lamentable".

This is lamentable".

"The result was lamentable.

That's lamentable".

It's lamentable".

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