Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Lamentation.
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- verb Present participle of
lament .
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- adjective vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression
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Examples
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I've never been one of those people who, in lamenting policy and politics in the U.S., builds up another country to disparage my own.
Christopher Sabatini: A More Mature Immigration Policy Christopher Sabatini 2010
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I've never been one of those people who, in lamenting policy and politics in the U.S., builds up another country to disparage my own.
Christopher Sabatini: A More Mature Immigration Policy Christopher Sabatini 2010
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I've never been one of those people who, in lamenting policy and politics in the U.S., builds up another country to disparage my own.
Christopher Sabatini: A More Mature Immigration Policy Christopher Sabatini 2010
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Cal: What the Obama administration and Raines and many at The Huffington Post and elsewhere in the Liberal Hemisphere are lamenting is that the media monopoly has ended.
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I ve never been one of those people who, in lamenting policy and politics in the U.S., builds up another country to disparage my own.
Christopher Sabatini: A More Mature Immigration Policy Christopher Sabatini 2010
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I've never been one of those people who, in lamenting policy and politics in the U.S., builds up another country to disparage my own.
Christopher Sabatini: A More Mature Immigration Policy Christopher Sabatini 2010
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Unfortunately, Myers's review of Tree of Smoke offers no evidence that this sort of stylistic vapidity is what he has is mind in lamenting the dominance of the sentence in contemporary prose.
Style in Fiction 2009
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Charles Stross is once again lamenting the state of American science fiction again, in his post Genre Neuroses 101.
Archive 2006-08-01 Lou Anders 2006
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Charles Stross is once again lamenting the state of American science fiction again, in his post Genre Neuroses 101.
The State of Science Fiction, Part III Lou Anders 2006
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The golf course you lamenting is clearly the worst one in the area.
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