deplore
IPA: dɪpɫˈɔr
verb
- (transitive) To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.
- (transitive) To condemn; to express strong disapproval of.
- (obsolete) To regard as hopeless; to give up.
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Examples of "deplore" in Sentences
- Norfolk blogger , why would you "deplore" a member of the BNP?
- G-8 leaders also said they "deplore" the March 26 attack on the South
- I don't think Bill Joy is particularly hypocrytical, and he certainly doesn't "deplore" progresss.
- In their statement Tuesday, U.S. bishops said they "deplore" the incursions and "call for them to end."
- What I deplore is the fact that we are now - what we now - almost everything written or spoken in English and Spanish.
- To deplore is to (1) feel or express grief for; (2) regret strongly; (3) consider unfortunate or desreving of deprecation.
- The media/Republican evangelical extremist leaders never kill anyone themselves of course, and they always "deplore" the violence.
- Personally, the thing I most deplore is the fondness for tobacco, but there doesn't seem much point in trying to argue that away, either: this was a man who rebelled, who thought for himself, and who liked to shock.
- I’ve only been here since early 2008, but it appears to me that at least half, and probably more, of the language which you deplore comes from the anti-Kos and anti-FDL type people who are in the libertarian and/or conservative ad/or Republican camp.
- At a chapel meeting yesterday, where journalists voted to reballot for industrial action over proposals by Trinity Mirror to cut 200 editorial jobs across the Mirror Group Newspapers titles, BAJ also passed a motion to "deplore" MGN's failure to implement the pay award.
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