(a.) Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error.
(a.) Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance.
(a.) Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or ridiculous sense.
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.
Laudable
Definition:
(v. i.) Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable actions; laudable ambition.
(v. i.) Healthy; salubrious; normal; having a disposition to promote healing; not noxious; as, laudable juices of the body; laudable pus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Why is it so surprising to people that a boy like Chol, just out of conflict, has thought through the needs of his country in such a detailed way?” While Beah’s zeal is laudable, the situation in South Sudan is dire .
(2) But, considering the high stakes involved in the gamble to permit suboptimal glucose regulation, it seems no longer rational to regard hyperglycemia as any more inevitable in the diabetic, than was "laudable pus" in the post-operative patient of yesteryear.
(3) The BBC Trust said director general Tony Hall had shown “laudable public ambition and commitment to change” but said it had “yet to feed through into change on air and in audience perceptions”.
(4) Laudable but not original, and a direct copy of an article published 12 years ago on Health Care in a Land Called PeoplePower (Health Expectations 2001; 4: 144-50).
(5) Honesty should extend to new commitments like seven-day services, a laudable aspiration with a hefty price tag.
(6) There’s a generosity of spirit there, which I think is laudable, and the British film industry ought to be very grateful.” Scott also has had to grapple recently with the shock of sudden personal tragedy.
(7) But even their contribution of 2,000 soldiers, while laudable, falls short of achieving anything other than the absolute basics: protecting French interests and citizens, and guarding key points like the airport and parliament.
(8) While the aim may be laudable, the centralised, top-down, regulation-driven approach seems odd given the potential for such a scheme to become costly and complicated; it is also ironic given the title of the bill.
(9) While the trend toward more conservative transfusion practices is laudable, blood transfusions should not be withheld because of fear of transfusion-transmitted disease.
(10) What started as a laudable if ambitious simplification of the welfare system has since been undermined by a toxic mix of hyperbole about what it will achieve, predictable IT bungling and, crucially, a series of stealth cuts that are changing the policy's character in advance of it coming to fruition.
(11) In one sense, it's laudable that he won't submit to the strictures of manufactured outrage, but his stance against professional offence-takers seems increasingly marked by coarse sensationalism.
(12) "We have come to the reluctant conclusion that the offender management model, however laudable its aspirations, is not working in prisons," say the chief inspector of prisons, Nick Hardwick, and the chief inspector of probation, Liz Calderbank.
(13) A laudable trend of preserving the knee was noted but poor stump conditions were the most important factors influencing the length of hospital stay (average 51 days).
(14) Interestingly, the Honolulu Heart Program, with its laudable efforts to collect both autopsy and arteriographic quantitations of atherosclerosis, provides perhaps the best illustration in the current literature of the power of using multiple endpoints for coronary artery disease to more completely elucidate the role of risk factors in the natural history of that disease.
(15) Medical empowerment of the elderly, a laudable social goal, can be as contradictory as informed consent itself and many elderly patients may opt out of their own decision making.
(16) For all the laudable initiatives, the more you complicate it, the more you benefit those who have got advice.
(17) The goal towards greater effectiveness and efficiency of the legal aid system is laudable, but a legal system that does not help those in need to get access to justice is a system which will, ultimately, be less efficient and cost more.
(18) Efforts to reorganize the survey process to make it more outcome-oriented are being initiated and, while this is laudable, there is no assurance that the process will be effective.
(19) Foster and adoption placements must be right first time Read more Fostering and adoption agency Tact, of which I am chief executive, recognises that these proposals are well-intentioned and come from a laudable place.
(20) If – a big if – the laudable new ICT curriculum (due to start this September) works, in roughly seven years' time we'll be in great shape, as a new generation of properly tech-ready kids graduate into the industry.