(v. i.) To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.
(v. t.) To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail.
(v.) Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.
(v.) An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) Foster has long admired the speed with which these were built, and laments how Britain has dithered about London's airports.
(2) The screen-printing evening is taking place in Bushwick, an area known for – or lamented as – being the hippest part of Brooklyn.
(3) The debates and the campaign are increasingly covered as entertainment,” Rubio said, lamenting the networks’ hunt for ratings.
(4) Prior to the constitutional reform bill being introduced last July, Mandelson had lamented in an interview with the Financial Times that it was "not legally possible" for him to stand again as an MP.
(5) In an interview with the Qingdao Morning Post, one man lamented how in recent years his wife had frittered away 130,000 yuan (£13,500) of their hard-earned savings on Double Eleven purchases – thus dashing their dreams of buying a new home.
(6) If peerages are in effect being sold, the academics argue, “these could be thought of as the ‘average price’ per party.” Former Liberal Democrat peer, Matthew Oakeshott, who on leaving the Lords in May last year lamented that his efforts to uncover cash-for-honours deals across the parties had failed, told the Observer that the case against the system, and the parties, was now compelling.
(7) Alongside that political failing is a lamentable failure of the police command culture.
(8) Calling on Israel to “break with its lamentable track record” and hold wrongdoers responsible, the hard-hitting report commissioned by the UN human rights council lays most of the blame for Israel’s suspected violations at the feet of the country’s political and military leadership.
(9) He also expresses his lament that Australia’s $46 million bid, which earned one vote as the World Cup was controversially awarded to Qatar, never stood a chance.
(10) Farah addressed the media in Birmingham on Saturday, lamenting his name being “dragged through the mud” because of his links to Salazar, despite no allegations of wrongdoing against him personally.
(11) Although that guarantee is traditionally understood to prohibit intentional discrimination under existing laws, equal protection does not end there … to know the history of our nation is to understand its long and lamentable record of stymieing the right of racial minorities to participate in the political process.” Justice Elena Kagan, another of the court’s liberals, sat out of the case due to conflicts of interest.
(12) It's music that defines compassion, lament, and loss, to which you can only surrender in moist-eyed wonder.
(13) Or you might find it rather sad that someone who spends a lot of their time lamenting how society's unrealistic beauty standards are used to control and oppress women is a victim of those same standards.
(14) But recounting the story of one of the key experiences of European integration, the painter and decorator sounded elegiac, as if describing not current realities but those of a lamented past.
(15) The deputy prime minister, Bülent Arinc, one of the co-founders of the ruling Islamic-rooted Justice and Development party (AKP), made the comment while lamenting the moral decline of modern society.
(16) For veterans of the women's movement there may be something unnerving about hearing the familiar slogans from Tory mouths – a sense that, as a female columnist lamented recently of Mensch, these late converts are "the wrong kind" of feminists.
(17) Wenger, though, warmed to a familiar theme when he lamented the importance that is attached to incoming signings.
(18) Hollande vowed to tackle France's standing as the most pessimistic country in Europe , "perhaps in the world", lamenting: "There are countries at war who are more optimistic than us."
(19) On Twitter , Wade lamented what he called another “act of senseless gun violence” which meant “4 kids lost their mom for NO REASON”.
(20) "We didn't make any mistakes today," Poyet lamented.
Wailer
Definition:
(n.) One who wails or laments.
Example Sentences:
(1) An earlier US action was concluded by a settlement in which Island agreed to pay £264,000 and legal costs on the understanding that the Wailers would cease any further legal action.
(2) Peter Tosh Founded the Wailers with Marley and Bunny Wailer in 1962, but fell out and left embittered in 1974.
(3) THE FIRST TRACK I CAN REMEMBER No Woman No Cry by Bob Marley and the Wailers (1974) This is the first song I can remember hearing when I was young.
(4) Ziggy Marley Eldest of Rita and Bob's sons, and only one of Marley's 11 offspring to even come close to inheriting mantle of Wailers.
(5) He also dismissed attacks against the honesty of Rita Marley, and said she had done her best over the years for the Wailers.
(6) It would have been enough to give each of his 52 children a little more than £1m for their father's unacknowledged contribution to the immortal sound of Bob Marley and the Wailers.
(7) Born Neville Livingston in 1947, he attended school with Marley - only as band was wound up did he acquire surname "Wailer".
(8) "Aston Barrett and his brother literally created the sound of the Wailers, though not for a minute to detract from the extraordinary songwriting ability of Mr Marley," Stephen Bate, representing the musician, told the judge.
(9) "It was the Barretts' unique sound which brought the Wailers international success."
(10) My father, he didn’t watch television …” That pales in comparison with the former Wailers bass player Aston “Family Man” Barrett, however, who claims to have fathered at least 52 children .
(11) Carlton Barrett "Carly", brother of fellow reggae star Aston Barrett and originator of the one drop rhythm, joined Wailers in 1969, and stayed until Marley's death.
(12) The new group, Bob Marley and the Wailers, included the Barrett brothers and Al Anderson for the first time.
(13) Bunny Wailer Only founder member alive today, and reputedly Bob's best friend.
(14) Members of the Wailers claim they were coerced into signing the deal, a claim Mr Justice Lewison rejected.