Update 9/14/2015: You know its getting bad when freelancers are launching full-time Twitter accounts to expose all the problems with the Upwork website, from connection timeouts, to CloudFlare 522 errors, to a laundry list of feature bugs.
The definition of lamented is  someone who is dead and who has been mourned for. When your father died and you were mourning for him, this is an example of a time when he was lamented.
lame duck noun [C]. âº a âperson who still has âtime to âserve in an âelected âposition âdespite not being âelected again in a ârecent âelection, with the âresult that the âperson has no âreal âpower. (Definition of lame duck from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary Â© Cambridge University Press).ame duck noun [C]. âº an unsuccessful âperson, thing, or âorganization: A lot of âtime and âeffort goes into âsupporting âemployees who are essentially lame ducks.