0 in a way that deserves severe criticism or is very bad:
The government, says the report, have carried out lamentably few of their promises.
The questions can sometimes be lamentably ill-informed.
The Government has lamentably failed to address this vital issue.
The postal service in this area is lamentably inefficient.
Some suicides are a lamentably common side-effect of our mental health phobia.
The new introduction at times slides into the lamentably frequent moral imperialism of history, interpreting the past through modern morals.
Despite the new exam, standards of translation continued to be lamentably poor.
If so, both parties lamentably misjudged the man.
Furthermore, units of study are lamentably short in many institutions.
He failed lamentably to do so earlier this afternoon.