Adjective : the deplorable death of a friend. ,This room is in deplorable order. You have deplorable manners!. From Dictionary.com.
The standard of local governance is deplorably low. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
How deplorably short-sighted are the wise ones of your world. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
The supply of arms, it is true, was deplorably deficient in 1861. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-Six Years in the Army] Reference
The mandate and resources of this Committee remain deplorably weak. From Wordnik.com. [STATEMENT BEFORE THE SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED BY RESOLUTION 421 (1977) CONCERNING THE QUESTION OF SOUTH AFRICA] Reference
There was a pause and then Miss Burney, deplorably pale, replied. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference
All are as deplorably human as the degraded peoples who devised them. From Wordnik.com. [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference
Evidently this was a bear of the most deplorably low moral character!. From Wordnik.com. [The Man-Wolf and Other Tales] Reference
A panorama more deplorably desolate no human imagination can conceive. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
The prevailing current of instruction and influence is deplorably low. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
Society as a whole was deplorably lacking in imagination, intellect and taste. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
They now began to sink under their hardships, and many had suffered deplorably. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean From Authentic Accounts Of Modern Voyagers And Travellers; Designed For The Entertainment And Instruction Of Young People] Reference
"The spirits must be deplorably dull if ringing a bell is a diversion to them.". From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
O'BRIEN: The deplorably high rate of infection in D.C. is why Marvelyn Brown is here. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2008] Reference
Similar tactics, though not so deplorably despicable, prevailed in several of the other. From Wordnik.com. [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference
It was, perhaps, a question of timing-and Custer's sense of timing could be deplorably bad. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and The Redskins]
The efficiency of the open fire method is deplorably bad and the firewood consumption high. From Wordnik.com. [1 Introduction] Reference
On closer inspection, you'll see that the paintings are deplorably workmanlike, drab and uninvolving. From Wordnik.com. [Currently Hanging] Reference
Comments about Hillary and her supporters looking like a "wax museum" are deplorably derogatory toward age. From Wordnik.com. [Kathleen Reardon: More Than Just "Mars And Venus" Going On In New Hampshire] Reference
Geigen ', afford to stultify great poetry by quoting from memory and getting the adjectives deplorably wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Recent Developments in European Thought] Reference
'There is no town in the United States which exhibits more deplorably the ravages of war than Harper's Ferry. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The law that a child's training and environment determine the character of the man, often fails most deplorably. From Wordnik.com. [Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters] Reference
The element of strife had now entered the Supreme Court of God's House, and the downward trend was deplorably rapid. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference
However, not only did they deplorably adopt the name Americans, but wanted to be the real owners of America as well. From Wordnik.com. [EL TENIENTE STADIUM SPEECH] Reference
So deplorably destitute of instruction were they that very few even of their preachers could read the simplest words. From Wordnik.com. [From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington] Reference
Certainly, if she had acted so deplorably in an era before the Internet, no such public punishment would have resulted. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Jim Taylor: Is Elizabeth Lambert a Victim?] Reference
The inevitable consequence is, that a large majority of them, long before they arrive to adult age, are deplorably vicious. From Wordnik.com. [A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery] Reference
There had evidently been a strenuous scene in which Pat had figured and through which he and the girl had emerged rather deplorably. From Wordnik.com. [The Shield of Silence] Reference
For decades, JP Stevens called the shots in Roanoke Rapid, N.C., paying poverty wages and offering deplorably unsafe working conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Bruce Raynor: Crystal Lee Sutton, the Real "Norma Rae," Was a Fighter to the End] Reference
As We hereby declare that We do not approve of the revolutionary measures which have been deplorably taken by the Storthing in violation of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish-Norwegian Union Crisis A History with Documents] Reference
The result would be recriminations and friction which must deplorably injure and lower the reputation and prestige of both the Executive and the. From Wordnik.com. [Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union] Reference
Sometimes it seems as if everyone over the age of five has written a book, but deplorably few of them have withstood the scrutiny of a surly editor. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Book Lover] Reference
Mlle Lièvenne, the first of them to be examined, brought with her an atmosphere of the theatre, "adopting a flashy costume, in deplorably bad taste.". From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
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