"lamentable" in the adjective sense
1. deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry
bad unfortunate
"my finances were in a deplorable state"
"a lamentable decision"
"her clothes were in sad shape"
"a sorry state of affairs"
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