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  • noun Plural form of lamenter.

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Examples

  • The answer to the pessimists and the lamenters is surely that in spite of the odds, which were there from the beginning, we have survived for a hundred years as a separate political entity, that our national life-political, cultural, economic-is more vigorous than it has ever been and that the desire to retain our identity is growing not abating.

    The Quality of Canadian Life 1965

  • And as one last palliative measure for Lamont lamenters, the Midterm Roundup might direct you to the man who has probably single-handedly preserved more lives of potentially suicidal liberals than anyone else over these past 6 years: Jon Stewart.

    Midterm Roundup 2009

  • They were no Greek chorus of lamenters, women left behind by husbands, brothers, sons in faraway lands.

    Women: Beware The Dreaded Thank-You Note 2002

  • They promised themselves that "if they ever got back to good old U.S. A. rations again" they would kick no more and their loud lamentations were music to the ears of the aforesaid mess sergeants and cooks, all of whom had suffered long and grievously at the hands of the lamenters.

    History of the 113th Field Artillery 30th Division 1920

  • He belonged unmistakably to that forlorn orchestra to whose piping no one dances; he was one of the world's lamenters who induce no responsive weeping.

    Beasts and Super-Beasts 1870-1916 Saki 1893

  • Vancouver International Film Festival runs over two weeks and the program reads like a rejoinder to cine-lamenters anywhere.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • Think of it: Recurring revenue, no copying worries, customer loyality even big brand names could only dream of today (aka fanboys that will defend any shit you cram down their throat) and even the "this sucks" lamenters will pay.

    Slashdot: Games Soulskill 2010

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