Crossword-Solution: LAMENTABLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lamentable | a. | Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance. |
| Lamentable | a. | Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error. |
| Lamentable | a. | Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or ridiculous sense. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “LAMENTABLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Widely mispronounced word meaning sorrowful. | 1 answer |
| Far from fortunate | 1 answer |
| like bad news | 11 answers |
| oppressing | 14 answers |
| depressant | 17 answers |
| dolorous | 24 answers |
| Saturnine | 27 answers |
| Regrettable | 27 answers |
| heartbreaking | 27 answers |
| plaintive | 28 answers |
| Woebegone | 29 answers |
| dolesome | 31 answers |
| afflictive | 31 answers |
| dispiriting | 35 answers |
| Calamitous | 46 answers |
| joyless | 50 answers |
| Bleak | 52 answers |
| deplorable | 60 answers |
| distressing | 77 answers |
| Unfortunate | 83 answers |
| Sad | 86 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LAMENTABLE (5)
Each of these would furnish a narrative, but on the whole I am of opinion that none of them unites so many singular points of interest as the episode of Yoxley Old Place, which includes not only the lamentable death of young Willoughby Smith, but also those subsequent developments which threw so curious a light upon the causes of the crime.
His decrepit wagon stood in front of his door like a stranded wreck; the miserable horse, with its lamentable swollen joints, fed greedily upon an armful of spoiled hay in a shed at the back.
His face, a livid brown, with red blotches of anger and lips sunken in like an old man's, was a lamentable ruin in the searching glare.
Each of these would furnish a narrative, but on the whole I am of opinion that none of them unite so many singular points of interest as the episode of Yoxley Old Place, which includes not only the lamentable death of young Willoughby Smith, but also those subsequent developments which threw so curious a light upon the causes of the crime.
But such little hauling as there had been had reduced the roads thereabouts to a lamentable condition, and, during the dry season of the past few months, the layer of dust had deepened and thickened to such an extent that more than once Presley was obliged to dismount and trudge along on foot, pushing his bicycle in front of him.
Quotes with LAMENTABLE (3)
[Tolstoy] denounced [many historians'] lamentable tendency to simplify. The experts stumble onto a battlefield, into a parliament or public square, and demand, "Where is he? Where is he?" "Where is who?" "The hero, of course! The leader, the creator, the great man!" And having found him, they promptly ignore all his peers and troops and advisors. They close their eyes and abstract their Napoleon from the mud and the smoke and the masses on either side, and marvel at how such …
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our …
Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart - its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1951–2023).