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  • Edna Adan deplores the cutting and says that international campaigns are ineffective, never reaching ordinary Somali women.†   (source)
  • We can bide our time, we can keep our thoughts in our hearts, deploring maybe evils done by the way, but approving the high and ultimate purpose: Knowledge, Rule, Order; all the things that we have so far striven in vain to accomplish, hindered rather than helped by our weak or idle friends.†   (source)
  • He deplored his situation and yet could do nothing to help it.†   (source)
  • To Sergeant Towser, who deplored violence and waste with equal aversion, it seemed like such an abhorrent extravagance to fly Mudd all the way across the ocean just to have him blown into bits over Orvieto less than two hours after he arrived.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, you do command ancillaries and not vulgar human troops, which the old-fashioned deplore just as much as they deplore the scions of obscure, nobody houses getting assigned as officers.†   (source)
  • As people got older, they used to grow out of their youthful slang and start deploring the language of the next generation.†   (source)
  • I want everyone in this room to know that I deplore all of your actions tonight and I refuse to share complicity in them.†   (source)
  • Though Old Ric continued to deplore the audacity, the boldness in Harriet that made her defy an overseer, she stopped calling her Minta or Minty.†   (source)
  • "Sometimes," he said, "I rue and deplore the day I married a social worker."†   (source)
  • And everyone will deplore the foolishness that led to disunion.†   (source)
  • No, dear Wyoh, much as I deplore violence, there are only two things to do with an enemy: Kill him.†   (source)
  • While the Christian moralist in oneself was impelled to deplore the atrocious nature of the IRA's campaign of bombings and killings, and the "mere Irish" in oneself was appalled by the ruthlessness of the British Army on occasions like Bloody Sunday in Derry in 1972, the minority citizen in oneself, the one who had grown up conscious that his group was distrusted and discriminated against in all kinds of official and unofficial ways, this citizen's perception was at one with the poetic…†   (source)
  • Certainly many Northern cities deplored what was going on in the South.†   (source)
  • It was just that I possessed small wit or patience for scientific abstractions, and this was something I think I deplored in myself as much as I envied the capacious and catholic range of Nathan's mind.†   (source)
  • If I found matters to criticize and to deplore, they were tendencies equally present in myself.†   (source)
  • He said he deplored money.†   (source)
  • I deplore Mr. Papillon's action; it was his duty not to succumb.†   (source)
  • And finally, when in 1848 the slavery issue split the Democratic party at its convention, Benton, deploring the split and denying the importance of the issue, refused to support either camp actively.†   (source)
  • And then they began to tell over Miss Sabina's story, their voices serene and alike: how she looked, the legend of her beauty when she was young, the house where she was born and what happened in it, and how she came out when she was old, and her triumphal way, and the pitiful end when she toppled to her death in a dusty place where she was a stranger, that she had despised and deplored.†   (source)
  • As fellow scientists we can deplore; but as men of the world we can only praise.†   (source)
  • I deplore this hostile action
  • She thanked him in the most ardent terms for his intended services towards her parent, and at the same time she gently deplored her own fate.   (source)
    deplored = disliked or regretted
  • Let me carry through the rest of my misdirected life, the remembrance that I opened my heart to you, last of all the world; and that there was something left in me at this time which you could deplore and pity.   (source)
    deplore = strongly dislike
  • In theory, Jefferson deplored parties or faction no less than did Adams or anyone.†   (source)
  • " "Yes," Lee said from the doorway, "and he deplored it.†   (source)
  • We cannot live without it, yet I confess I deplore the necessity of consorting with our long-fingered friends.†   (source)
  • Rose shopped harder in Pike and Cabot than she had in a year, riffling through every sales rack, bringing home a hundred dollars' worth of groceries, and deploring my father's drinking (but in an indulgent, daughterly, respectful sort of way) to five or six inquisitive women, including Mary Carson's mother.†   (source)
  • Farmer also agreed to serve as the chief but unpaid consultant on tb in Russian prisons for the World Bank's mission to Moscow—unpaid at his insistence; he deplored some of the bank's policies; Soros was taking care of his expenses.†   (source)
  • Although the plight of the unemployed was to be deplored, many were idle from inclination, and force should be used promptly and effectively against illegal strikers and outside agitators.†   (source)
  • …head of the junta's death squads, whose minions had murdered Chouchou, had been trained at Fort Benning's School of the Americas; that some of the junta's henchmen and officers in the Haitian army also worked for the cia; that while formally deploring the coup, Washington, with the help of a generally compliant mainstream American press, was busily denouncing Aristide, even manufacturing lies about him, and maintaining a leaky embargo that seemed calculated to preserve appearances but…†   (source)
  • But sometimes I see instead the young girl's face I once spent so much time rearranging and deploring, drowned and floating just beneath my present face, which seems — especially in the afternoons, with the light on a slant — so loose and transparent I could peel it off like a stocking.†   (source)
  • He deplored the loss of life, Jefferson said, but only as he would deplore the loss of life in battle.†   (source)
  • In every generation there are people who deplore changes in the language and many who wish to stop its flow.†   (source)
  • My one consolation, that Mum could not see my disgrace, turned out mistaken; pictures, taken through bars and showing grim face, were in every Luna paper, and write-ups used nastiest Earthside stories, not larger number that deplored injustice.†   (source)
  • The day's orders from Sullivan deplored the disorder and unsoldierly behavior displayed in the camps on the eve of battle.†   (source)
  • For though he was the greatest advocate of the navy of any American statesman of his generation, Adams deplored the idea of a standing army.†   (source)
  • If you cringe when someone says between you and I; bristle at the word hopefully; detest prioritize; if you cherish the distinction between disinterested and uninterested and deplore their being treated as synonyms; if you wonder what's happened to education when you hear criteria used as a singular--then you are probably part of the large body of Americans who feel our language is in a state of serious decline.†   (source)
  • He deplored the loss of life, Jefferson said, but only as he would deplore the loss of life in battle.†   (source)
  • Calling on Benjamin Rush shortly afterward, Jefferson assured his old friend he was as faithful a republican as ever and "deplored" the change in John Adams.†   (source)
  • He deplored Adams's handling of relations with France, the "precipitate nomination" of William Vans _Murray, the firing of Timothy Pickering, the pardoning of John Fries.†   (source)
  • However greatly she deplored the dictates of fashion, on principle, she was utterly fascinated by the dress of the French ladies, which she described as being like their manners, "light, airy, and genteel."†   (source)
  • A member of the moderate wing of the party, Professor Bieganski, then a rising young faculty star in his thirties, wrote an article in a leading Warsaw political journal deploring these assaults, which caused Sophie a number of years later to wonder—when she happened upon the essay—whether he hadn't suffered a spasm of radical-utopian humanism.†   (source)
  • But Bob Taft, speaking in cold, clipped matter-of-fact tones, deplored that sentence, and suggested that involuntary exile—similar to that imposed upon Napoleon—might be wiser.†   (source)
  • The memories of the gas chambers at Buchenwald and other Nazi concentration camps, the stories of hideous atrocities which had been refreshed with new illustrations at Nuremberg, and the anguish and suffering which each new military casualty list had brought to thousands of American homes—these were among the immeasurable influences which caused many to react with pain and indignation when a United States Senator deplored the trials and sentences of these merely "despicable" men.†   (source)
  • And he must have been particularly distressed when respected Constitutional authorities such as the President of the American Bar Association, the Chairman of its Executive Committee and other leading members of the legal profession all deplored his statement and defended the trials as being in accordance with international law.†   (source)
  • It was not that these two loving mentors deplored Scarlett's high spirits, vivacity and charm.†   (source)
  • It shows an overhaste-indeed, a presumptuousness, which we can but deplore.†   (source)
  • How William Bankes deplored it, without, so far as she could remember, saying anything about it!†   (source)
  • He wrote about the decline of civilization and deplored the loss of the simple faith.†   (source)
  • But whatever the reason may be, it is a fact that one must deplore.†   (source)
  • Obviously we may deplore this curious kink in his character and suspect in him a lack of proper feeling.†   (source)
  • Poirot had a good opinion of Japp's abilities, though deploring his lamentable lack of method, but I, for my part, considered that the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!†   (source)
  • Probably, therefore, he will say something like this: While freely conceding that the Soviet régime exhibits certain features which the humanitarian may be inclined to deplore, we must, I think, agree that a certain curtailment of the right to political opposition is an unavoidable concomitant of transitional periods, and that the rigors which the Russian people have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement.†   (source)
  • He was capable of loving the political criminal, the revolutionary or intellectual seducer, the outlaw of state and society, as his brother, but as for theft and robbery, murder and rape, be would not have known how to deplore them otherwise than in a thoroughly bourgeois manner.†   (source)
  • Strife, divisions, difference of opinion, prejudices twisted into the very fibre of being, oh, that they should begin so early, Mrs. Ramsay deplored.†   (source)
  • While Frank and his quiet churchgoing friends realized the necessity of the system, they deplored it just the same.†   (source)
  • For the appetite Mammy had always deplored, the healthy appetite of a nineteen-year-old girl, now was increased fourfold by the hard and unremitting labor she had never known before.†   (source)
  • They came to deplore their ignorance of the way in which that person used to spend his or her days, and reproached themselves for having troubled too little about this in the past, and for having affected to think that, for a lover, the occupations of the loved one when they are not together could be a matter of indifference and not a source of joy.†   (source)
  • When he came home at two in the morning and his mother was shocked at the blank look he gave her, she was deploring precisely the sole alleviation Rieux could then experience.†   (source)
  • And no matter which side they took, the relatives heartily deplored the fact that India had taken it upon herself to wash the family dirty linen so publicly and involve Ashley in so degrading a scandal.†   (source)
  • But his is a type one disagrees with rather than deplores.†   (source)
  • But some he loved better than others, and so he deplored the inexplicable cruelty.†   (source)
  • Twice she deplored the weather, twice criticised the train service on the Great Northern Railway.†   (source)
  • She laughed at Arobin's pretensions, and deplored Mrs. Highcamp's ignorance.†   (source)
  • Nobody could deplore it more than myself; for if, as somebody said hearing him mentioned, "Oh yes!†   (source)
  • Oh, shall we then deplore Those futile years!†   (source)
  • But I deplore the—the manner in which I've been approached.†   (source)
  • If you deplore their presence here, they ask, Who brought us?†   (source)
  • Then you feel quite sure that it was your misfortune he deplored?†   (source)
  • Mary deplored the necessity for herself.†   (source)
  • His letters expressed how much he deplored it.†   (source)
  • The more I consider this mighty tail, the more do I deplore my inability to express it.†   (source)
  • The scattered Fragments into the Void we carry, Deploring The beauty perished beyond restoring.†   (source)
  • "I don't accuse you of it—I deplore it.†   (source)
  • These losses are much to be deplored, sir, but we must look 'em in the face.'†   (source)
  • Which of the dead are most tenderly and passionately deplored?†   (source)
  • Emma could not deplore her future absence as any deduction from her own enjoyment.†   (source)
  • Bitterly did he deplore a deficiency which now he could scarcely comprehend to have been possible.†   (source)
  • They were deploring Emma's death, especially Lheureux, who had not failed to come to the funeral.†   (source)
  • We were not on terms, which is to be deplored now, but he never WOULD be on terms.†   (source)
  • I deplored the untimely death of Mr. Spenlow, most sincerely, and shed tears in doing so.†   (source)
  • 'And very much to be deplored it was, on all accounts!†   (source)
  • He could not deplore (as Thackeray's heroes so often exasperated him by doing) that he had not a blank page to offer his bride in exchange for the unblemished one she was to give to him.†   (source)
  • Jude inwardly deplored what he thought to be unnecessary frankness; but she had gone too far not to explain all, which she accordingly did, telling him how they had marched up to the altar.†   (source)
  • Madeline assured her friends that no trick was being played upon them, and that she deplored the discomfort and distress, but felt no real alarm.†   (source)
  • Often she deplored the bourgeois quality of the American Catholic clergy, and was quite sure that had she lived in the shadow of the great Continental cathedrals her soul would still be a thin flame on the mighty altar of Rome.†   (source)
  • The only person who deplored his fate was poor Nina Alexandrovna, who wept bitter tears over him, to the great surprise of her household, and, though always in feeble health, made a point of going to see him as often as possible.†   (source)
  • As for my mother, when we had carried her up to the hamlet, a little cold water and salts and that soon brought her back again, and she was none the worse for her terror, though she still continued to deplore the balance of the money.†   (source)
  • Joan deplored this, yet she had the keenness to understand that it was nature fitting her to survive.†   (source)
  • When I first came to Tuskegee, I determined that I would make it my home, that I would take as much pride in the right actions of the people of the town as any white man could do, and that I would, at the same time, deplore the wrong-doing of the people as much as any white man.†   (source)
  • Mrs Durbeyfield's jacket and bonnet were already hanging slily upon a chair by her side, in readiness for this contemplated jaunt, the reason for which the matron deplored more than its necessity.†   (source)
  • In exquisite, perfectly enunciated words, he deplored the cold and damp, which were a bitter affliction for him.†   (source)
  • He deplored the American's black coat and pepper-and-salt trousers, and spoke with a scornful shrug of his New England conscience.†   (source)
  • Villona, with immense respect, began to discover to the mildly surprised Englishman the beauties of the English madrigal, deploring the loss of old instruments.†   (source)
  • Everything that one does seems, no matter how right it may be, to bring on the very thing which is most to be deplored.†   (source)
  • …among all these people whose stupidity and absurdities wounded him all the more cruelly since, being ignorant of his love, incapable, had they known of it, of taking any interest, or of doing more than smile at it as at some childish joke, or deplore it as an act of insanity, they made it appear to him in the aspect of a subjective state which existed for himself alone, whose reality there was nothing external to confirm; he suffered overwhelmingly, to the point at which even the sound…†   (source)
  • His brothers had not replied at all, seeming to be indignant with him; while his father and mother had written a rather sad letter, deploring his precipitancy in rushing into marriage, but making the best of the matter by saying that, though a dairywoman was the last daughter-in-law they could have expected, their son had arrived at an age which he might be supposed to be the best judge.†   (source)
  • "Gentlemen," he continued and stood up, perfectly composed now, "I deplore the way today's amusements have turned out, but every man must reckon with such incidents in life.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Highcamp deplored the absence of her daughter from the races, and tried to convey to her what she had missed by going to the "Dante reading" instead of joining them.†   (source)
  • When Phillotson saw the blood running down the rector's face he deplored almost in groans the untoward and degrading circumstances, regretted that he had not resigned when called upon, and went home so ill that next morning he could not leave his bed.†   (source)
  • Exempted by a long career in the Secretariate from personal contact with the peoples of India, he was able to speak of them urbanely, and to deplore racial prejudice.†   (source)
  • "Well, then, just roughly now, without going into detail, do you suppose you could explain to yourself and this jury how and why and where and when those changes came about which led to that relationship which we all of us" (and here he looked boldly and wisely and coldly out over the audience and then afterwards upon the jurors) "deplore.†   (source)
  • Leora and he found themselves with so many invitations that they, who had deplored the dullness of Wheatsylvania, complained now that they could have no quiet evenings at home.†   (source)
  • I have drunk with this man, and perhaps I deplore the fact now, but I did not take him up for the sake of drink alone (excuse the crudeness of the expression, prince); I did not make friends with him for that alone.†   (source)
  • Mr. van der Luyden supplied short ones on Opera nights; but they were so good that they made his guests deplore his inexorable punctuality.†   (source)
  • His words showed a nice discrimination between the grossness of the vulgar, which he deplored but accepted, and the finer taste of the elect.†   (source)
  • The imperturbable Link took off his cap and goggles and, consulting his watch, made his usual apologetic report to Madeline, deploring the fact that a teamster and a few stray cattle on the road had held him down to the manana time of only a mile a minute.†   (source)
  • Then she sometimes travelled, and Lily's familiarity with foreign customs—deplored as a misfortune by her more conservative relatives—would at least enable her to act as a kind of courier.†   (source)
  • She had the heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes, and indifferent to money; but she could go without many things which her relations considered indispensable, and Mrs. Lovell Mingott and Mrs. Welland had often been heard to deplore that any one who had enjoyed the cosmopolitan luxuries of Count Olenski's establishments should care so little about "how things were done."†   (source)
  • He felt shy with her and in his heart he resented her great beauty: she dressed more magnificently than became the wife of a hardworking surgeon; and the charming furniture of her house, the flowers among which she lived even in winter, suggested an extravagance which he deplored.†   (source)
  • …irrepressible, dominant, despotic Legrandin, if he lacked our Legrandin's charming vocabulary, shewed an infinitely greater promptness in expressing himself, by means of what are called 'reflexes,' it followed that, when Legrandin the talker attempted to silence him, he would already have spoken, and it would be useless for our friend to deplore the bad impression which the revelations of his alter ego must have caused, since he could do no more now than endeavour to mitigate them.†   (source)
  • Lily and her mother wandered from place to place, now paying long visits to relations whose house-keeping Mrs. Bart criticized, and who deplored the fact that she let Lily breakfast in bed when the girl had no prospects before her, and now vegetating in cheap continental refuges, where Mrs. Bart held herself fiercely aloof from the frugal tea-tables of her companions in misfortune.†   (source)
  • At that moment, with her blood hot and racing, she would have gloried in the violence which she had so deplored: she would have welcomed the action that had characterized Stewart's treatment of Don Carlos; she had in her the sudden dawning temper of a woman who had been assimilating the life and nature around her and who would not have turned her eyes away from a harsh and bloody deed.†   (source)
  • He knew that few Indians think education good in itself, and he deplored this now on the widest grounds.†   (source)
  • …so strong an element of hypocrisy is there in even the most sincere of men, who cast off, while they are talking to anyone, the opinion they actually hold of him and will express when he is no longer there, my family joined with M. Vinteuil in deploring Swann's marriage, invoking principles and conventions which (all the more because they invoked them in common with him, as though we were all thorough good fellows of the same sort) they appeared to suggest were in no way infringed at…†   (source)
  • I remembered the tragedy of the unfortunate Adams and the still more unfortunate Colt in the solitary office of the latter; and how poor Colt, being dreadfully incensed by Adams, and imprudently permitting himself to get wildly excited, was at unawares hurried into his fatal act—an act which certainly no man could possibly deplore more than the actor himself.†   (source)
  • The young man, who could now read the lines and folds of Henchard's strongly-traced face as if they were clear verbal inscriptions, quietly assented; and when people deplored the fact, and asked why it was, he simply replied that Mr. Henchard no longer required his help.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Corney shook her head mournfully, as if deploring the mental blindness of those paupers who did not know it; and thrusting a silver spoon (private property) into the inmost recesses of a two-ounce tin tea-caddy, proceeded to make the tea.†   (source)
  • Kitty, a fair but frozen maid, Kindled a flame I yet deplore, The hood-wink'd boy I called to aid, Though of his near approach afraid, So fatal to my suit before.†   (source)
  • The Father Superior listened to him with dignity, and, with a slight bend of the head, replied: "I sincerely deplore his absence.†   (source)
  • She looked wistfully at him with her sorrowful eyes as he said those words, and her aspect showed that more than one person in the room could deplore the possession of sensitiveness.†   (source)
  • Fortune, however, favours the brave; and this adventurer, who took three grains of quinine a day, had at the end of a month no cause to deplore his temerity.†   (source)
  • However, he had hardly quitted the audience hall of the Court of Assizes, when the district-attorney, recovering from his first shock, had taken the word to deplore the mad deed of the honorable mayor of M. sur M., to declare that his convictions had not been in the least modified by that curious incident, which would be explained thereafter, and to demand, in the meantime, the condemnation of that Champmathieu, who was evidently the real Jean Valjean.†   (source)
  • Mrs Chivery at once laid aside her work, rose up from her seat behind the counter, and deploringly shook her head.†   (source)
  • All earnestly expressed by their features that their minds did not wander to Holland for a moment on account of this statement, but were deploring the difference which gave rise to the figure; and Mark Clark cried "Hear, hear; just what I should ha' said."†   (source)
  • As to deploring her misfortunes, she appeared to have entirely lost the recollection of ever having had any.†   (source)
  • It always happens so in this vale of tears, there is an inevitability about such things which we can only wonder at, deplore, and bear as we best can.†   (source)
  • To his misfortune, my uncle was not gifted with a sufficiently rapid utterance; not, to be sure, when he was talking at home, but certainly in his public delivery; this is a want much to be deplored in a speaker.†   (source)
  • "Oh," cried Eugenie, "you are a bad physiognomist, if you imagine I deplore on my own account the catastrophe of which you warn me.†   (source)
  • Our recollections are unfortunately mingled with much that we deplore, and with many actions which we bitterly repent; still in the most chequered life I firmly think there are so many little rays of sunshine to look back upon, that I do not believe any mortal (unless he had put himself without the pale of hope) would deliberately drain a goblet of the waters of Lethe, if he had it in his power.'†   (source)
  • The presence and remarks of Willarski who continually deplored the ignorance and poverty of Russia and its backwardness compared with Europe only heightened Pierre's pleasure.†   (source)
  • Concerning all this, it is much to be deplored that the mast-heads of a southern whale ship are unprovided with those enviable little tents or pulpits, called CROW'S-NESTS, in which the look-outs of a Greenland whaler are protected from the inclement weather of the frozen seas.†   (source)
  • There he had seen everything to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost; and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.†   (source)
  • Thus to deplore, each from his point of view, the mutually destructive interdependence of spirit and flesh would have been instinctive with these in critically observing Yeobright.†   (source)
  • Renewed is Pain: with mournful repetition Life tracks his devious, labyrinthine chain, And names the Good, whose cheating fortune tore them From happy hours, and left me to deplore them.†   (source)
  • Philosophers and statesmen are heard to deplore that morals are not sufficiently strict, and the literary productions of the country constantly lead one to suppose so.†   (source)
  • A stranger does, indeed, sometimes meet with Americans who dissent from these rigorous formularies; with men who deplore the defects of the laws, the mutability and the ignorance of democracy; who even go so far as to observe the evil tendencies which impair the national character, and to point out such remedies as it might be possible to apply; but no one is there to hear these things besides yourself, and you, to whom these secret reflections are confided, are a stranger and a bird…†   (source)
  • After completely exhausting herself, she stopped to take breath: and, as if suddenly recollecting herself, and deploring her inability to do something she was bent upon, wrung her hands, and burst into tears.†   (source)
  • As she had been inveterate in the past only in the sense of constantly having an apartment in one of the sunniest niches of the Pincian—an apartment which often stood empty—this suggested a prospect of almost constant absence; a danger which Isabel at one period had been much inclined to deplore.†   (source)
  • One day when I was reproaching him for his unavailing searches, and deploring the prostration of mind that followed them, he looked at me, and, smiling bitterly, opened a volume relating to the History of the City of Rome.†   (source)
  • And it is much to be deplored that the place to which you devote so considerable a portion of the whole term of your natural life, should be so sadly destitute of anything approaching to a cosy inhabitiveness, or adapted to breed a comfortable localness of feeling, such as pertains to a bed, a hammock, a hearse, a sentry box, a pulpit, a coach, or any other of those small and snug contrivances in which men temporarily isolate themselves.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • She might tear her long hair and cry her great eyes out, but there was not a person to heed or to deplore the discomfiture.†   (source)
  • At length, Madame Rigaud, in an access of fury that I must ever deplore, threw herself upon me with screams of passion (no doubt those that were overheard at some distance), tore my clothes, tore my hair, lacerated my hands, trampled and trod the dust, and finally leaped over, dashing herself to death upon the rocks below.†   (source)
  • If I had entertained the latter conviction, I should not have written this book, but I should have confined myself to deploring in secret the destiny of mankind.†   (source)
  • She had sighed for her self-completeness then, and now she cried aloud against the severance of the union she had deplored.†   (source)
  • Deploring the evil-mindedness of her eldest daughter in these terms, Mrs Kenwigs distilled fresh drops of vexation from her eyes, and declared that she did believe there never was anybody so tried as she was.†   (source)
  • Your dear friend followed me to my retreat, and was very droll on the severance of the connection; though he was sorry, too, for the excellent people (in their way the best he had ever met), and deplored the necessity of breaking mere house-flies on the wheel.†   (source)
  • An American is forever talking of the admirable equality which prevails in the United States; aloud he makes it the boast of his country, but in secret he deplores it for himself; and he aspires to show that, for his part, he is an exception to the general state of things which he vaunts.†   (source)
  • Mr Snawley looked steadfastly at his son for a full minute, and then covering his eyes with his hand, and once more raising his hat in the air, appeared deeply occupied in deploring his black ingratitude.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • He chucks Chambermaid (the Right Honourable Lord Southdown) under the chin; she seems to deplore his absence, as Calypso did that of that other eminent traveller Ulysses.†   (source)
  • A few men, the least impressed of all by the scene, pronounced a discourse, some deploring this premature death, others expatiating on the grief of the father, and one very ingenious person quoting the fact that Valentine had solicited pardon of her father for criminals on whom the arm of justice was ready to fall—until at length they exhausted their stores of metaphor and mournful speeches.†   (source)
  • Differences between relations are much to be deplored — but they are extremely general — and the great thing is, to be on the right side': meaning, I take it, on the side of the moneyed interest.†   (source)
  • But this may be said, that when the tea was finally announced, our young lady came downstairs a great deal more cheerful; that she did not despond, or deplore her fate, or think about George's coldness, or Rebecca's eyes, as she had been wont to do of late.†   (source)
  • …and then she began to reflect what a comfortable sum it would have been just then; which dismal thoughts made her tears flow faster, and in the excess of these griefs she (being a well-meaning woman enough, but weak withal) fell first to deploring her hard fate, and then to remarking, with many sobs, that to be sure she had been a slave to poor Nicholas, and had often told him she might have married better (as indeed she had, very often), and that she never knew in his lifetime how…†   (source)
  • "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.†   (source)
  • In consideration of this eminent public service, the Barnacle then in power had recommended the Crown to bestow a pension of two or three hundred a-year on his widow; to which the next Barnacle in power had added certain shady and sedate apartments in the Palaces at Hampton Court, where the old lady still lived, deploring the degeneracy of the times in company with several other old ladies of both sexes.†   (source)
  • "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.†   (source)
  • …best parties (Fred was still anxious that the balance of the Osborne property should be transferred from Stumpy and Rowdy's to them), and whilst Amelia, who did not know Latin, or who wrote the last crack article in the Edinburgh, and did not in the least deplore, or otherwise, Mr. Peel's late extraordinary tergiversation on the fatal Catholic Relief Bill, sat dumb amongst the ladies in the grand drawing-room, looking out upon velvet lawns, trim gravel walks, and glistening hot-houses.†   (source)
  • With some of the Chorus, he laughed about the sleepy member who had gone out into the lobby the other night, and voted the wrong way: with others, he deplored that innovating spirit in the time which could not even be prevented from taking an unnatural interest in the public service and the public money: with the physician he had a word to say about the general health; he had also a little information to ask him for, concerning a professional man of unquestioned erudition and polished…†   (source)
  • He was deploring the dreadful predicament in which he found himself, in a house full of old women, jabbering French and Italian, and talking poetry to him.†   (source)
  • Amelia had risen very early in the morning, and packed her little trunks with the greatest alacrity, while Osborne lay in bed deploring that she had not a maid to help her.†   (source)
  • His Excellency Colonel Rawdon Crawley died of yellow fever at Coventry Island, most deeply beloved and deplored, and six weeks before the demise of his brother, Sir Pitt.†   (source)
  • She falls down on her knees and entreats him to restore her to the mountains where she was born, and where her Circassian lover is still deploring the absence of his Zuleikah.†   (source)
  • She deplored the fatal levelling tendencies of the age, which admitted persons of all classes into the society of their superiors, but her ladyship owned that this one at least was well behaved and never forgot her place in life.†   (source)
  • Briggs told all her history amidst those perfectly uncalled-for sobs and ejaculations of wonder with which women of her soft nature salute an old acquaintance, or regard a rencontre in the street; for though people meet other people every day, yet some there are who insist upon discovering miracles; and women, even though they have disliked each other, begin to cry when they meet, deploring and remembering the time when they last quarrelled.†   (source)
  • The Dowager wrote off the direst descriptions of her daughter's worldly behaviour to the authoress of the Washerwoman of Finchley Common at the Cape; and her house in Brighton being about this time unoccupied, returned to that watering-place, her absence being not very much deplored by her children.†   (source)
  • They felt and they deplored—but they could not resent it; and they parted, endeavouring to hope that such a change in the general, as each believed almost impossible, might speedily take place, to unite them again in the fullness of privileged affection.†   (source)
  • as evil as the Deplorable Word   (source)
    deplorable = strongly disapproved of
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
  • And his deplorable habit of being bold after the event, and full, in absence, of the most extraordinary presence of mind.   (source)
    deplorable = very bad or regrettable
  • The hall was at present occupied by two deplorably sober men and their highly indignant wives.   (source)
    deplorably = regrettably
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ably" is a combination of the suffixes "-able" and "-ly". It means in a manner that is capable of being. This is the same pattern you see in words like agreeably, favorably, and comfortably.
  • The deplorable part of it was that Lazarus followed him.   (source)
    deplorable = very bad or regrettable
  • Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse.   (source)
  • It is deplorable ignorance of his character, child, and nothing else, which makes that dream enter your head.   (source)
  • We were nothing short of deplorable, and it was a wonder we were not cretins.†   (source)
  • Eavesdropping is a deplorable habit, but I have developed worse ones since.†   (source)
  • It thrilled me, deplorably, when people mistook Hobie for my parent.†   (source)
  • I took a tour of the Capital Valley once, and I must say, the Red villages are simply deplorable.†   (source)
  • Does she want to atone for the sins of her money-ridden, wrecked, deplorable family?†   (source)
  • How could she accost Will like she did, when what she's doing is just as deplorable, if not worse?†   (source)
  • But is heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid?†   (source)
  • Even more deplorable was the prospect of "shedding British blood by British hands."†   (source)
  • The errors of others were inevitably deplorable.†   (source)
  • "Was it the Deplorable Word that made the sun like that?" asked Digory.†   (source)
  • She even knew that I had the secret of the Deplorable Word.†   (source)
  • On this march [through New Jersey] we looked upon a deplorable sight.†   (source)
  • The furniture belonging to the public is in the most deplorable condition [he reported to Abigail].†   (source)
  • Now it was he who had the deplorable inclination to monarchy.†   (source)
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