alack
Americaninterjection
interjection
Etymology
Origin of alack
Example Sentences
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Cox said factors including slower economic growth, less job creation, and alack of EV tax incentives are expected to affect vehicle sales next year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
That’s not to promote mediocrity, or alack of drive, but perhaps not always pushing to be the best will allow us to fully engage in what we’re learning and with the life around us.
From Washington Times • Apr. 20, 2020
But highlighting alack of laws targeting bad landlords, none of the criminal charges related to Mr. Croman’s treatment of tenants.
From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2017
Oxford I sing, though in untutored tones, alack!
From BBC • Nov. 21, 2014
The custom of doing so was adopted in my family several generations back, because, alack, in those troubled days of continuous war, families were exposed to being rent apart and dispersed far and wide.
From The Abbatial Crosier or Bonaik and Septimine. A Tale of a Medieval Abbess by Sue, Eugène
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