Definition of Lamentable

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Lamentable

Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance.

Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error.

Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or ridiculous sense.

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Lamentable Quotations

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Voltaire

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
Charles Caleb Colton

Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.
Douglas Hurd

The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals.
Edward Blake

Lamentable Translations

lamentable in German is beklagenswert
lamentable in Latin is lamentabilis, lacrimabilis
lamentable in Norwegian is beklagelig

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