Words similar to lamentable
Example sentences for: lamentable
How can you use “lamentable” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
David Mellinkoff's criticism of lawyer language is lamentable.
This is lamentable and unnecessary.
"The lamentable moral degradation that leads some people to exchange human lives for money has its roots in our materialistic society, characterized by badly swollen egos," the paper claimed.
However lamentable the "marriage penalty" may be, his examples vastly overstate its size.
For dear means beloved, affectionate, precious, and the like; but the exclamation Oh! dear! is one that denotes something very different, something that is lamentable or calamitous, and very far from being pleasant.