lamentable

From the time of Dean Swift downwards, it has mostly suffered from being lamentably unfashionable.

The congregation of Trinity Church is better than it was a few years ago, but it is still lamentably, small.

Mademoiselle Desgarcins had got up, shaken herself, and gone to rejoin her companions, who were still howling lamentably.

He would have made his brother Duke such as he was himself,—had not his brother Duke been so lamentably thin-skinned.