deplorable

Speech parts

1. deplorable - Noun

2. deplorable - Adjective

3. deplorable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable.

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Examples

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. Martin Luther King Jr.

The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable. Alfred North Whitehead

Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what. Samuel Beckett

For some queer and deplorable reason most human beings are more impressed by words than by figures, to the great disadvantage of mankind. Jan Tinbergen

It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest. Roger Mahony

I recall this sergeant's informing me and my "room-mates" of this rather deplorable fact the army didn't have any official, excuse me, didn't have no official song and suggested that we work on this in our copious free time. Tom Lehrer

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