lamentable
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Yet if human folly predates the decline of reading, the atrophy of this splendid activity is no less lamentable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Plenty of films measure the lamentable distance between real life and Hollywood fantasy, but there’s not enough poignancy or creative exuberance in these stilted dance sequences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
I had no quarrel with Cole recounting that lamentable story alongside mine, but we did have one occasional difference of emphasis.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
"Local police and Spain's Civil Guard have begun investigating to try to clear up this lamentable event, in which everything points towards a robbery," read the post.
From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026
Oh, yes, they had seen it, each brother and sister beneath the sound of his voice tonight, and they had seen the destruction caused by a so lamentable unripeness!
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
Vocabulary lists containing lamentable
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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