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lamentably

/luh-men-tuh-buhl, lam-uhn-tuh-/US // ləˈmɛn tə bəl, ˈlæm ən tə- //UK // (ˈlæməntəbəl) //

可悲的是,可叹的是,令人遗憾的是

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : that is to be lamented; regrettable; unfortunate: a lamentable decision.
    • : Rare. mournful.

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Examples

  • From the time of Dean Swift downwards, it has mostly suffered from being lamentably unfashionable.

  • The congregation of Trinity Church is better than it was a few years ago, but it is still lamentably, small.

  • Mademoiselle Desgarcins had got up, shaken herself, and gone to rejoin her companions, who were still howling lamentably.

  • He would have made his brother Duke such as he was himself,—had not his brother Duke been so lamentably thin-skinned.

  • The moment he approached they fell to the ground, and whimpered and howled most lamentably as long as he was near them.