What is the English expression or exclamation to refer to something that has gone wrong or a missed opportunity, or something that we could have done better than we actually did?
I'm specifically wondering about an English equivalent of the Italian interjections “Mannaggia!” and “Che peccato!”
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To Shyam's list (alas, my bad, and oops) I would add
To add a sense of disgust as well as disappointment, one could use
Of course, you have onomatopoeic words like argh, ugh, hrmph, or bleah and all manner of profanity. Some euphemisms have come into their own as "dictionary words" as well, like