What's the difference between lamentable and repine?

Lamentable


Definition:

  • (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.

Repine


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To fail; to wane.
  • (v. i.) To continue pining; to feel inward discontent which preys on the spirits; to indulge in envy or complaint; to murmur.
  • (n.) Vexation; mortification.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Repin found it the most powerful and poignant commission of his career, donating his fee to a memorial for the composer.
  • (2) Also hugely important is Ilya Repin’s portrait of Modest Mussorgsky, painted when the composer, at the age of 42, was at death’s door because of illness brought on by his chronic alcoholism.
  • (3) Repin with Framykoin reduced most effectively the number of micro-organisms for the longest period of time.
  • (4) Repin, one of the sesquiterpene lactones found in Russian knapweed, has been shown to possess high toxicity toward chick embryo sensory neurons.
  • (5) Since the isolation of phosphoglycerate kinase from yeast (Bücher, 1955) there have been several reports of purification methods yielding enzyme approaching molecular homogeneity, from rabbit muscle (Beisenherz et al., 1953; Czok and Bücher, 1960; Rao and Oesper, 1961; Avramov and Repin, 1965; and Scopes, 1969) and from chicken muscle (Gosselin-Rey, 1965).
  • (6) The authors compared three types of bandages (Repin with Traumacel, Repin with Framykoin and Repin alone).
  • (7) Figures such as Repin, Mikhail Vrubel and Alexander Serov are “spectacular” artists, said Blakesley but “relatively unsung in the west and deserve a higher profile”.
  • (8) He dispatched Repin, the most exciting Russian painter of his day, to a military hospital in St Petersberg to capture the composer before it was too late.
  • (9) One patient had avascular necrosis, one patient had bilateral chondrolysis, and two patients required repinning.
  • (10) The paper deals with the antimicrobial activity of repin bandages used commonly in periodontology.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Modest Mussorgsky by Ilia Repin, 1881.
  • (12) The company runs a free photo-sharing website which allows users to pin and repin images of objects of interest, which are then themed in a grid-like structure.
  • (13) In a limpid dining room are portraits of Tolstoy and his family by the painter Repin; round the corner is his 22,000-volume library; in the woods is his unmarked oblong grave.
  • (14) The possible causal relationship between repin and equine nigropallidial encephalomacia disease prompted a more complete structural assignment of repin, which was accomplished by X-ray and 1H-nmr analyses.

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