lamentable

Newt Gingrich faults big government for the lamentable absence of manned stations on the moon.

Thus did they avoid being entrapped into negotiations which could only prove the most lamentable of comedies.

Without food and drinking water their condition was lamentable.

Lamentable errors like this occurred in various parts of the country at this time.

The way to the lake was marked by fresh and lamentable tokens of the sufferings of slaves.

It was a lamentable series of bottomless pockets, socks full of holes, and shirts without buttons.