lamentable
regrettable ; wretched ; sad ; deplorable ; miserable ; parlous ; embarrassing ; sorry ; woeful ; pitiful ; abject ; abjected.
All these networks have standard record formats, although it is regrettable that they all operate to different standards.
A card catalog has the capability of being kept up to date, but it is a wretched way to make information available.
It is at least arguable that the discreditable popular image is to some extent a reflection of his own self-image, and that the sad irony of the librarian is that people have come to accept him at his own valuation.
We agree with Price that using the words 'citation' and 'reference' interchangeably is a deplorable waste of a good technical term.
Sometimes of an evening, after my miserable journeyings through the day, I would stand for hours in the Strand, leaning against the shutters of a closed shop, and watching the compositors at work by gaslight on the opposite side of the way, upon a morning paper.
Book provision to many schools is in a parlous state and the school book market also has its problems.
This is highly embarrassing for the innocent reader and for the apologetic library staff.
The author describes the sorry state of libraries in Portugal where 149 of the 558 libraries have a collection of less than 1,000 titles.
In this woeful film, under the mantle of a 'bitter-sweet romantic comedy,' Poliakoff lets his maudlin sentiments and fears run riot.
Today's pitiful situation must be improved drastically to cope with the overwhelming demand of clients for better library service.
Her art works incorporate such abject materials as dirt, hair, excrement, dead animals, menstrual blood and rotting food in order to confront taboo issues of gender and sexuality.
In this study of sapphism in the British novel, Moore often directs our attention to the periphery of sapphic romances, when an abjected body suffers on behalf of the stainless heroine.
de forma lamentable
miserably
Research on the history of ethics has ignored Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten miserably.
dejar en un estado lamentable
leave + Nombre + in a sorry state (of affairs)
leave + Nombre + in a bad way
Overfishing and poor management have left the world's seas in a sorry state.
My partner suffered a pulmonary embolism which shocked the whole family and left her in a bad way.
de manera lamentable
lamentably
miserably
The 1960's are often viewed as lamentably as the 1950's are memorably.
Research on the history of ethics has ignored Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten miserably.
estar en un estado lamentable
be in a sorry state (of affairs)
be in a bad way
be in a bad state (of affairs)
Often quoted as the most polluted sea of the world, the Baltic Sea is indeed in a sorry state.
Several of those who are wounded, have had their limbs cut off, ?nd arc thought to be in a bad way.
In recent years the agricultural sector has been in a bad state of affairs, and a bold planning policy in this direction is necessary.
fracasar de manera lamentable
fail + miserably
fail + dismally
However, in retrospect, the U.S. government's goal of eradicating Native American cultures failed miserably.
The essays in this volume fail dismally to contribute anything of value to our understanding of the topic.
fracaso lamentable
embarrassing failure
Others have said that the painting lacks proportion, perspective, a sense of decorum and that it has been 'an embarrassing failure'.
ser lamentable
be a pity
be embarrassing
It is rather a pity that book reviewers tend to ignore this very popular genre so much.
It was equally embarrassing to see her behave in such an obsequious manner.
