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How to use deplorable in a sentence

14 example sentences · adjective, noun

Deplorable means to be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion; lamentable. Example: “We were all saddened by the deplorable death of his son.”

Examples of deplorable by meaning

adjectiveTo be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion; lamentable.

  • We were all saddened by the deplorable death of his son.

adjectiveDeserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad, wretched.

  • Poor children suffer permanent damage due to deplorable living conditions and deplorable treatment by law enforcement.
  • Poor children are often accused of having deplorable manners, when they are, in fact, simply responding to society in ways that mirror how society treats them.
  • The repeated tactic of deus ex machina (without a deus) has a deplorable effect on both the plot and the dialogue.2007 August 12, Christopher Hitchens, “Harry Potter: The Boy Who Lived”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2020

More sentences with deplorable

  • The efficiency of the planning department is deplorable.From the entry efficiency
  • All the French is translated and most of the translations are deplorable."1967, William Henry Thorne, The Book Review Digest: Sixty-Second Annual Cumulation, H. W. Wilson Company, pages 484-485. From the entry overcondensed
  • The day Barry left, Pugin made a temperish comment in his diary: 'The present condition of the architecture is deplorable.2016, Caroline Shenton, Mr Barry's War. From the entry temperish
  • Menin Road got the offensive back on the rails but conditions, which had been deplorable before, favoured the outcome.2012, Peter Pedersen, ANZACS on the Western Front, →ISBN. From the entry on the rails
  • Dery and Sinker were not the first to explore the deplorable need of some to dehumanize others in the quest for power.2013, Ytasha L. Womack, Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture, →ISBN, page 32. From the entry Afrofuturistic
  • SLS seems to me not so much moral or immoral as simply a caricature; not admirable or deplorable, but absurd . . . .1983, John S. McCann, The Critical Reputation of Tennessee Williams, page 171. From the entry unalive
  • When the people's champ gives us the dope on corporate bosses and sweatshop kings, he never presents their greed as some kind of deplorable personal trait.2000 August 7, Robert Newman, “Performers of the world unite”, in The Guardian. From the entry dope
  • What Eliot had in mind by writing "Growltiger's Last Stand" is difficult to say unless it was to present catkind in one of its most deplorable states.1978, Francelia Butler, editor, Children's literature, Volume 7. From the entry catkind
  • "That this use should be destructive is no doubt very deplorable, but Science knows no distinctions of the sort, but follows knowledge wherever it may lead."1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine. From the entry science
  • It has had a deplorable effect in furnishing pretexts for the stifling of all independent philosophical thought and in establishing the party's dictatorship over science and culture in every sphere.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford…. From the entry dictatorship

Meaning of deplorable

  1. adjective To be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion; lamentable.
  2. adjective Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad, wretched.
  3. noun A person or thing that is to be deplored.

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Questions about deplorable in a sentence

How do you use deplorable in a sentence?
Deplorable is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “We were all saddened by the deplorable death of his son.”
What is a short sentence with deplorable?
“The efficiency of the planning department is deplorable.”
What does deplorable mean?
Deplorable means to be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion; lamentable.

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