Lackaday

We missed the Willems portion lackaday but caught Yee and Lubar. ❋ Fusenumber8 (2006)

But, as she once sang in a flop by Walter and Jean Kerr called Goldilocks (she blames them, too), "Heigh-ho, a-lackaday." ❋ Unknown (2002)

My father, however, is a proud man, a gallant knight and tried soldier of the oldest blood, to whom this man's churlish birth and low descent ---- Oh, lackaday! ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1902)

I have been living on in a thirtover, lackaday way, and have not seen what it may lead to! ❋ Unknown (1891)

My father, however, is a proud man, a gallant knight and tried soldier of the oldest blood, to whom this man's churlish birth and low descent -- -- Oh, lackaday! ❋ Unknown (1890)

See, lackaday! the lady of Dolberg's beautiful chamois skin that was to be dyed of a delicate green for her ladyship's slippers. ❋ Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick (1827)

[9] The Greek translates as ‘O me, o me, lackaday’. ❋ Unknown (1793)

Alas and lackaday, they are not yet ready to distribute their best ale of the year and we didn't even get to play beer explorers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I am not sure how lackadaisical acquired the blundering sense of ` listless, languid, careless, apathetic, 'but there are echoes of such words as lax, laxity, lack, lassitude, and maybe lazy days that must have helped to oust the ` lackaday' of the original. ❋ Unknown (1980)

"To declare that for _him_, lackaday! our thing's a pure Moretto -- and to declare as much, moreover, with all the weight of his authority, to ❋ Henry James (1879)