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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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    He bitterly deplored the false pride which led his friend to a conduct so little worthy of the affection that united them.  (source)
    deplored = disliked
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    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)
    deplored = strongly disliked or regretted
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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)
    deplore = strongly dislike or regret
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    He explained some of the reasons he had assassinated Lincoln: He longed for the South as it was and deplored the Union.†  (source)
    deplored = strongly disliked or regretted
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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)
    deploring = strongly disliking or regretting
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    It thrilled me, deplorably, when people mistook Hobie for my parent.†  (source)
    deplorably = badly or 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.
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    Edna Adan deplores the cutting and says that international campaigns are ineffective, never reaching ordinary Somali women.†  (source)
    deplores = strongly dislikes or regrets
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    The spirit, first, of my companion came, Elpenor; for no burial honours yet Had he received, but we had left his corse In Circe's palace, tombless, undeplored, 60 Ourselves by pressure urged of other cares.†  (source)
    undeplored = not disliked or regretted
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undeplored means not and reverses the meaning of deplored. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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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)
    deploringly = with strong dislike or regret
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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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    It was one thing, Monopoly nights, to sit around and laugh at or deplore some of the things that Daddy and Harold did or said.†  (source)
    deplore = strongly dislike or regret
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