Verb
To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over.
To complain of.
To regard as hopeless; to give up.
To lament.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI deplore this hostile action Source: Internet
we lamented the loss of benefits Source: Internet
We deplore the government's treatment of political prisoners Source: Internet
And it is equally impossible, no matter how much you deplore the extravagances and improprieties of his works, to make him into an insignificant one." Source: Internet
Even while broadsheet commentators this week deplore Priti Patel’s alleged bullying of senior Whitehall officials (denied by the home secretary), in the very next paragraph they chalk it up as the inevitable price of all that reforming zeal. Source: Internet
As a huge fan of Barbara Michaels, Mary Stewart and Antoinette Stockenberg, I deplore the dearth of wonderful, ghostly gothic novels like they wrote. Source: Internet