All 6 Uses
deplore
in
Gone with the Wind
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- It was not that these two loving mentors deplored Scarlett's high spirits, vivacity and charm.†
Chpt 1.3 *deplored = strongly disliked or regretted
- 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.†
Chpt 3.25
- With every appearance of reluctance at disclosing the unpleasant truth, she would sigh and tell prospective customers that her competitors' lumber was far too high in price, rotten, full of knot holes and in general of deplorably poor quality.†
Chpt 4.38deplorably = badly or regrettablystandard 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.
- While Frank and his quiet churchgoing friends realized the necessity of the system, they deplored it just the same.†
Chpt 4.41deplored = strongly disliked or regretted
- 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.†
Chpt 5.55
- Finances at the red-brick house would have been in a deplorable state, but for Uncle Henry's intervention, and it humiliated Pitty to take money from him.†
Chpt 5.55deplorable = very bad or regrettablestandard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
Definitions:
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(1)
(deplore) strongly dislike or regret
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)