Sample Sentences for
deplore
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    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
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    Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf.  (source)
    deplore = strongly regret
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    "Sometimes," he said, "I rue and deplore the day I married a social worker."†  (source)
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    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.
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    Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.†  (source)
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    He deplored his situation and yet could do nothing to help it.†  (source)
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    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)
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    It thrilled me, deplorably, when people mistook Hobie for my parent.†  (source)
    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.
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    Edna Adan deplores the cutting and says that international campaigns are ineffective, never reaching ordinary Somali women.†  (source)
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    Mrs Chivery at once laid aside her work, rose up from her seat behind the counter, and deploringly shook her head.†  (source)
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    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
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    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)
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    As though he deplored their taste in clothes.†  (source)
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