The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word CRYING
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More clues leading to the result CRYING
- Clubs attempting to ban bit of tasteless shouting
- Carry lion oddly with head in grasp – this will end in tears
- Showing sadness in bearing, a queen departs
- Lamentable that new garden city not given date letters
- Charlie replaces Snoopy’s lead in tears
- Lamentable being pregnant after a Romeo disappears
- Miserable kind of shame?
- Cold and severe with temperature dropping. It’s distressing
- Started off foretelling the future, ended up yelling
- Female leaves cooking, beginning to childishly weeping
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The straight part
We know that "Lamentable" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case lamentable = crying.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does CRYING mean?
CRYING verb- To shed tears; to weep.
- To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
- To shout, scream, yell.
- To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
- To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
- To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, etc.
- Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
- The act of one who cries; a weeping or shouting.
- That cries.
- That demands action or attention.
- That deserves rebuke or censure.