sad commentary

collocation in English

meaningsofsadandcommentary

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sad
adjective
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/sæd/us
/sæd/
unhappy ...
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commentary
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈkɒm.ən.tər.i/us
/ˈkɑː.mən.ter.i/
a spoken description of an event on the radio or television that is broadcast as the ...
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(Definition ofsadandcommentaryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsad commentary

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That is asadcommentaryon the proud pit villages that were destroyed by that lot opposite.
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It is asadcommentaryon the events of the past three decades.
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It is asadcommentaryon his addiction to dogma.
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This is asadcommentaryon the development of industrial relations in this industry.
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It is asadcommentaryon the subject that that is the approach.
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That people should plead for its preservation is asadcommentaryon 20th century life.
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Is not that asadcommentaryon both our countries?
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It is asadcommentary, but it is true.
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This is a verysadcommentaryon our existing housing stock.
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That is asadcommentaryon the present state of the country.
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I find it a verysadcommentarythat there has been or will be a shortage of nurses.
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It is asadcommentaryon any social system that it allows the best part of its manpower to fall into that category.
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That is asadcommentaryon the deep and passionate divisions within the work force.
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Her absence from his funeral was a contemptible dereliction of duty and asadcommentaryon her sense of priorities and decency.
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It is asadcommentaryon the unvarying condition of one aspect of human nature that some of these dice, even, were loaded.
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It is asadcommentaryupon that speech to hear what we have been told to-day.
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This is a verysadcommentaryon society.
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It is asadcommentaryon the impracticality of the hard core environmental lobby in the country that it does not yet support nuclear power.
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He said it was asadcommentarythat it should all end in this sorry way.
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That is asadcommentaryon the past decades of that industry.
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