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Definition

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

deplore = strongly regret

as evil as the Deplorable Word
C.S. Lewis -- The Magician's Nephew

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.)

The deplorable part of it was that Lazarus followed him.
Richard Connell -- The Most Dangerous Game

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.)

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

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.)

It is deplorable ignorance of his character, child, and nothing else, which makes that dream enter your head.
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights

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.)

The hall was at present occupied by two deplorably sober men and their highly indignant wives.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

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.)

Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse.
Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities

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.)

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

deplored = disliked

You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Letter from a Birmingham Jail

deplore = strongly disapprove of

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

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.
Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities

deplore = strongly dislike

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, sir
Collins, 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

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