as in boo
used to express sorrow or distress
alack, it's true—the only good restaurant in town is closing!
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Like the catchphrase to the Wide World of Sports broadcast that first enthralled Hunt with the World Cup, this was the essence of the thrill of victory contrasting, alas, with the agony of defeat.
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What remains — what seems, alas, less obsolete — is the hate.
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The girls, who have been aw-ing at Aniya’s love story with Carl, tell the boys to sit down.
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In the north of the British Isles, people sometimes combined ye, a second person plural pronoun for you, along with aw, meaning all.
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“Alack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alack. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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