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deplorably

deplorably adverb: in a deplorable manner.

Adverb

deplorably (comparative more deplorably, superlative most deplorably)

  1. in a deplorable manner
    • As it is, the miner is one of the most overworked and deplorably underpaid men in the country. […] I know very well that if your supply of coal depended on my walking several miles to a pithead, descending in a cage for half a mile, walking again to the dwindling tunnel where I had to work, then...1934, J[ohn] B[oynton] Priestley, “To East Durham and the Tees”, in English Journey […], London: William Heinemann in association with Victor Gollancz, →OCLC, section 1, page 330
    • But, setting this view aside, dishonorable would it be in the South were she willing to abandon to shame the memory of brave men who with signal personal disinterestedness warred in her behalf, though from motives, as we believe, so deplorably astray.1866, Herman Melville, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, Supplement

Examples of deplorably in a sentence

  • Reflection finds the circumstance unfortunate that most of the agreeable actions of life are either forbidden or else deplorably behedged with restrictions.1927, James Branch Cabell, Straws and Prayer-Books:
  • Jezebel, though she bent the knee to Baal, was pleasing in Ahab’s sight; and he saw that her father’s army, though deplorably pagan, wielded heavy swords.1928 January, Ernest C. Wilson, “A King and a Kingdom That Limped”, in Youth, volume 2, number 1, page 13:

Forms of deplorably

comparativemore deplorably
superlativemost deplorably

Origin of deplorably

From deplorable + -ly.

Questions about deplorably

What does deplorably mean?
Deplorably means in a deplorable manner.
How do you use deplorably in a sentence?
Reflection finds the circumstance unfortunate that most of the agreeable actions of life are either forbidden or else deplorably behedged with restrictions.
What part of speech is deplorably?
Deplorably is an adverb.

Words near deplorably in the dictionary

  1. deplication
  2. deplorability
  3. deplorable
  4. deplorableness
  5. deplorables
  6. deplorably
  7. deplorate
  8. deploration
  9. deplorations
  10. deplorative
  11. deplore

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