lamentable

adj

1. Causing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing.

   “In what a lamentable caſe were I, If Nature had not giuen me wiſedomes lore?”

   “Moreover, in view of the lamentable present indecision of the Government in regard to electrification, the large-scale building of diesel power may prove to have been a farseeing move after all.”