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bewailing

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verb

present participle of bewail

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bewailing
Adjective
  • And every day, across from them, outside the clinic, about to enter or just leaving, there were women hugging each other and weeping.
    David Mamet, National Review, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
Verb
  • Tel Aviv activists hold silent vigils mourning Gaza’s children, confronting public hostility with quiet resilience.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Hollywood is mourning the loss of an undeniable force following the news of Diane Keaton's death.
    Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Walt Disney Imagineering updated the storyline of Black Widow Bride Constance Hatchway earlier this year by turning her from an axe murderer who beheads her wealthy husbands into a more mournful figure overwhelmed by the dread of lost love.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
  • In this context, even a simple boast about wielding a Beretta sounded mournful.
    Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Advertisement While most movies would try to paint James as a sympathetic figure, a white man whose stymied ambitions are worth lamenting, The Mastermind doesn’t.
    Robert Daniels, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • He is compensated for lamenting and comforting grieving families during funerals.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Actually, more than mad, the guy is heartbroken.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Among those heartbroken fans was DJ Premier, who was one of the first people to comment on his passing.
    Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Layola University will announce funeral arrangements at a later date.
    Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • At the end of the service, a funeral procession carried Howard's casket, now draped in an American flag, south along Hickory Road.
    Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 4 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Free Press, which Paramount bought for about $150 million, paints itself as a voice of the center but draws its energy from the bitter US culture wars.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • There were glimmers of hope, even in bitter defeat, for the reigning AFC champions.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 12 Oct. 2025
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“Bewailing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bewailing. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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