Lamentingly

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La`ment´ing`ly

adv.

In a lamenting manner.

References in classic literature ?

They were uttered lamentingly, rather than angrily.

After the inter-school tournament in Karachi, the winning team does not go places when it should," he says, lamentingly.

Pakistan: Private lessons

My colleague lamentingly summed it up thus: "Theory is bad, political thought in art is wrong, activism is jejune, the free market is good, individualism is great, the amoral artist is genius.