What is "lamentably"

Usage examples of "lamentably".

He will think that in the scene with the Major-General I acted with lamentably little spirit, and that generally my friend Alastor would have proved infinitely more worthy of the situation.

Descenders and the Ascenders, and, most lamentably, passes over those systemssuch as that of Plotinusthat perfectly integrate the two.

These miserably disinclined, The lamentably unembraced, Insult the Pleasures Earth designed To people and beflower the waste.

I looked, and there, peering out of a hole in the trunk of the banyan about five feet from the ground, I saw a pale face and a pair of large mustachios, one clipped short and the other as lamentably out of curl as the tail of a newly whipped pug.

Evidently his uncomfortable predicament had upset his digestion for he rumbled lamentably and at each uncontrollable gurgitation he assumed an air of huffy grandeur.

And watching Clara Danford at the other end of the room, talking with her faithful companion, the young and pretty and lamentably unwealthy Miss Harriet Pope, and with Colonel and Mrs.

I demonstrated all too lamentably my lack of masterliness and found myself most horribly insulted and abused.

All he knew of women were Prole girls who in the natural course of events were of a lamentably low order of intelligence even for Proles.

Yet almost without exception such overesteem was followed by a counterresponse: the Orient suddenly appeared lamentably under-humanized, antidemocratic, backward, barbaric, and so forth.

Incontinently after the sorrowfull newes of the death of Lepolemus, came to the eares of all the family, but especially to Charites, who after she had heard such pitifull tydings, as a mad and raging woman, ran up and down the streets, crying and howling lamentably.

Italian abounds in synonyms, while French is lamentably deficient in this respect.

She was making the little beds with her the next morning, trying to keep up with the speedy skill and failing lamentably, when her companion said softly: "So you cadged a lift, did you?

Mistress Corviser, who was large, handsome and voluble, looked round from her fireside hob, uttered a muted shriek, dropped her ladle, and came billowing like a ship in full sail to embrace him, shake him, wrinkle her nose at the prison smell of him, abuse him for the damage to his best cotte and hose, box his ears for laughing at her tirade, exclaim lamentably over the dried scar at his temple, and demand that he sit down at once and let her crop the hair that adhered to the matted blood, and clean up the wound.

But the wicked ones—and, even more lamentably, the totally useless and worthless and dispensable ones—they all go on cluttering our world, long beyond the life span they deserve.

Thou shalt lamentably fall away if thou set a value upon any worldly thing.