Lamentably synonyms

The result, though marvellous in quality, is in quantity lamentably meagre.

The school of Cuvier was lamentably deficient in embryologists; and it was only in the course of the first thirty years of the igth century that Prevost and Dumas in France, and, later on, Ddllinger, Pander, von Bar, Rathke, and Remak in Germany, founded modern embryology; and, at the same time, proved the utter incompatibility of the hypothesis of evolution as formulated by Bonnet and Haller with easily demonstrable facts.

One section, giving us some of the mysteries of the physician, shows how lamentably crude were his notions of the constitution of the body.

Brazil is lamentably deficient in steamship communication considering its importance in a country where the centres of population are separated by such distances of coasts and river.

For that very reason it was lacking in strength and unity of purpose, and proved lamentably incapable of dealing with the problems of the moment.