deplored
Meaning
of Deplore
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Examples
After his defeat, Napoleon deplored the fact that his dream of a free and peaceful "European association" remained unaccomplished.
Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf deplored the violence against the officers.
Ariosto later said that the cardinal was ungrateful, that he deplored the time which he spent under his yoke, and that if he received some small pension, it was not to reward him for his poetry — which the prelate despised — but for acting as a messenger.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, in a meeting with the visiting European Union foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, deplored the continued non-commitment of the EU parties to the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Frith, p. 116. A number of other players, while maintaining a united front in public, also deplored bodyline in private.
In 1926, Joseph Stalin 's manoeuvres inside the Bolshevik party moved Gramsci to write a letter to the Comintern in which he deplored the opposition led by Leon Trotsky but also underlined some presumed faults of the leader.