Bewailed

We cried, we rent our hair, we bewailed the fate of our children. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mariner and Dag Daughtry, while the trio of partners raged and bewailed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A writer in the left-wing magazine Mother Jones recently bewailed that "in any other year [Toomey] would be among the most conservative candidates in the country," but in this one he "is on a glide path to take Arlen Specter's old Senate seat." ❋ Matthew Kaminski (2010)

He bewailed Ireland's "credit-fuelled Ponzi scheme" economy of the last decade and accused fellow economist Patrick Honohan, the central bank governor, of committing "the costliest mistake ever made by an Irish person". ❋ Unknown (2011)

Journalists, most famously Margaret Hebblethwaite on BBC television, bewailed that "Rottweiler Ratzinger" now held the Keys of St Peter. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bunning reached some new climacteric of pathetic whining when he bewailed, on the Senate floor, the fact that his own filibuster had caused him to miss a big baseball game on TV. ❋ Unknown (2010)

No less a genius than Nietzsche foresaw all this a century ago (I mean the real Nietzsche not the nazified myth bewailed by morons). ❋ Unknown (2010)

In The New York Times recently, Paul Krugman bewailed the fact that although the ideas of "free-market fundamentalism" had so clearly failed, that they seemed to be triumphant in Washington. ❋ Robert Teitelman (2010)

There's a perceived decline in standards of home cooking here and frozen ready-meals chain Picard is so ubiquitous that a culinary commentator recently bewailed "the deep freeze generation." ❋ Lennox Morrison (2010)

It is said that once he (Thales) was led out of his house by an old woman for the purpose of observing the stars, and he fell into a ditch and bewailed himself. ❋ Heather McDougal (2008)

This did not trouble him in the least; he had bewailed his entire woe, now let them see the few rags he had on his body, and then they could carry him away. ❋ Franz Kafka (2000)

Just to show that he could be even lamer than he already has been, Gollum wept and bewailed over this joyous event. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Similarly, in 1996 the Republicans bewailed the fact that a decorated military veteran could lose to a draft dodger. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With the plaintive voice of the afflicted Church he bewailed in a long discourse the great disturbances which, as has been mentioned above, agitated the world where faith had been undermined. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Often described as bitter and frustrated by financial difficulties and a waning reputation in his later years, he incessantly bewailed the loss of his Boston property. ❋ Maggiemac (2009)