unlamented
Britishadjective
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Atticus is the popular fictional hero created by Susan’s most successful author, a fellow long gone and unlamented except by their publishing house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
As it happened, its proposals were unable to achieve sufficient support from the panel’s 18 members, so it disbanded, unlamented, before the end of 2010 without issuing any recommendations at all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2022
Also gone, and unlamented, is the ghost runner on second base in extra innings.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2022
It’s as if Claire were simply plopped into Frank’s ill-fitting and annoyingly still ever-present shoes, leaving us with a female version of her late, unlamented husband.
From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2019
Its vital principle exhausted and gone, its power of doing good terminated, the Union itself, become productive only of strife and contention, must ultimately fall, dishonored and unlamented.
From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Daniel Webster
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