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strongly dislike or regret- We deplore the government's treatment of political prisoners.
deplore = strongly disapprove of or regret
- I deplore this hostile action
- Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf.Kahlil Gibran -- The Prophet
- as evil as the Deplorable WordC.S. Lewis -- The Magician's Nephew
- The deplorable part of it was that Lazarus followed him.Richard Connell -- The Most Dangerous Game
- And his deplorable habit of being bold after the event, and full, in absence, of the most extraordinary presence of mind.Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
- It is deplorable ignorance of his character, child, and nothing else, which makes that dream enter your head.Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
- The hall was at present occupied by two deplorably sober men and their highly indignant wives.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby
- Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse.Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
- He bitterly deplored the false pride which led his friend to a conduct so little worthy of the affection that united them.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham.Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Letter from a Birmingham Jail
- 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.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- 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.Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
- Bitterly did he deplore a deficiency which now he could scarcely comprehend to have been possible.Austen, Jane -- Mansfield Park
- At the same time, one must deplore the ramification of organizations, Mrs.Woolf, Virginia -- Night and Day
- The physician shook his head, leaving it doubtful whether he meant to reply in the negative or to deplore considerations of that nature.Shaw, George Bernard -- An Unsocial Socialist
- "Oh," cried Eugenie, "you are a bad physiognomist, if you imagine I deplore on my own account the catastrophe of which you warn me."Dumas, Alexandre -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Don't be too ready to deplore my sad condition, sirCollins, Wilkie -- The Two Destinies
- It's the contemplation of this sort of thing, that makes me deplore my fate in being a bachelor.Dickens, Charles -- The Old Curiosity Shop
- The more I consider this mighty tail, the more do I deplore my inability to express it.Melville, Herman -- Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV
deplore = strongly regret
deplorable = strongly disapproved of
(Editor's note: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.)
deplorable = very bad or regrettable
(Editor's note: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.)
deplorable = very bad or regrettable
(Editor's note: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.)
deplorable = very bad or regrettable
(Editor's note: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.)
deplorably = regrettably
(Editor's note: 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.)
deplorable = very bad or regrettable
(Editor's note: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.)
deplored = disliked
deplore = strongly disapprove of
deplored = disliked or regretted
deplore = strongly dislike