The kitchen was large, with a lamentable lack of up-to-date equipment.

"Lord Marcus was only too eager to make certain you would not suffer from your lamentable lack of judgment."

With a lamentable lack of tact Walegrin stared back.

It showed such a lamentable lack of faith.

Any weaknesses with comprehensive schools are due to the lamentable lack of government investment in them.

Another instance of Bunny's lamentable lack of decisive, firm leadership.

It was Betty, with that lamentable lack of delicacy which George had pointed out to her, who had not been ready to leave.

Community responsibility for this lamentable lack of progress should not be diminished.

Rightly, the temporary committee had identified this lamentable lack of diligence on the part of the Commission.

This shows a lamentable lack of familiarity with the subject, common among the resentment-merchants of the Right.