All 10 Uses of
deplore
in
Bleak House
- All through the deplorable cause, everything that everybody in it, except one man, knows already is referred to that only one man who don't know, it to find out—all through the deplorable cause, everybody must have copies, over and over again, of everything that has accumulated about it in the way of cartloads of papers (or must pay for them without having them, which is the usual course, for nobody wants them) and must go down the middle and up again through such an infernal…†
Chpt 7-9
- All through the deplorable cause, everything that everybody in it, except one man, knows already is referred to that only one man who don't know, it to find out—all through the deplorable cause, everybody must have copies, over and over again, of everything that has accumulated about it in the way of cartloads of papers (or must pay for them without having them, which is the usual course, for nobody wants them) and must go down the middle and up again through such an infernal…†
Chpt 7-9
- "And what kind of man," my Lady asks, "was this deplorable creature?"†
Chpt 10-12 *
- It affected us to see Caddy clinging, then, to her deplorable home and hanging on her mother's neck with the greatest tenderness.†
Chpt 28-30
- We were not on terms, which is to be deplored now, but he never WOULD be on terms.†
Chpt 31-33
- "No, he never communicated with us, which is to be deplored," the old gentleman strikes in, "but I have come to look after the property—to look over the papers, and to look after the property.†
Chpt 31-33
- "Still I am bound to tell you," observes Allan after repeating his former assurance, "that the boy is deplorably low and reduced and that he may be—I do not say that he is—too far gone to recover."†
Chpt 46-48
- Volumnia with all humility explains that she had not merely the plea of curiosity to urge (in common with the giddy youth of her sex in general) but that she is perfectly dying with regret and interest for the darling man whose loss they all deplore.†
Chpt 52-54
- Your ladyship will remember when I mention it that the last time I was here I run against a party very eminent in our profession and whose loss we all deplore.†
Chpt 55-57
- "Indeed, it has been made so hard," he goes on, "to have any idea what that party was up to in combination with others that until the loss which we all deplore I was gravelled—an expression which your ladyship, moving in the higher circles, will be so good as to consider tantamount to knocked over.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(deplore) strongly dislike or regret