0 past simple and past participle of bemoan
1 to complain or express sadness about something:
Researchers at universities are always bemoaning their lack of funds.
And, tellingly, some writers who bemoaned the booming sale of chromos blamed women, not manufacturers, for their popularity.
It appears that the authors bemoaned the arrogance and insensitivity of the relief workers.
Coady bemoaned that this art is ' ' as yet, outside of our art world.
Opponents of medical charities bemoaned the negative effect of free care on the independence, dignity, and self-sufficiency of the poor.
Recently in a college magazine a writer bemoaned the ever-presence of cellphones.
Though some contemporaries bemoaned the feminization of public schooling, there should be little doubt that it was not women who defined this institutional structure.
Although the reduction of respect for persons to a signed consent form is often bemoaned, it can hardly be denied.
He bemoaned their rejection of cheap but nutritious northern dishes such as ' hasty pudding ' (milk porridge).
