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• Reviewing a collection of Tom Wolfe’s journalism, Hitchens deplored Wolfe’s affectations and his plummy conservative politics.2024 January 1, Dwight Garner, “Want to Feel, Intellectually, Like Someone Is Rotating Your Tires?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry plummy
• While commentators deplored the thuggery of some cabdrivers, they deplored “L’uberisation” even more.2015 July 4, Maureen Dowd, “Paris When It Sizzles”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry uberisation
• There were underhanded ploys that were effective but were deplored by the hospital administration.2014, Carl Douglass, The Long Climb, →ISBN. From the entry underhanded
• Only misanthropists disagree or the dottier Malthusians who send green-ink tweets deploring any state assistance for child-rearing.2013 August 16, Polly Toynbee, “Britain's booming birthrate”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 21. From the entry precious
• Therefore, the ecologists who deplore the elimination of a species are not merely appealing to our sentiment.1980 July, James E. Lovelock, “Living Planet Earth”, in Omni, volume 2, number 10, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 124, column 3. From the entry Gaia
• The state deplores the consumer approach in sport—and builds the colisea which encourage it.1956, Soviet Survey, pages 54–55. From the entry coliseum
• It is easier to invoke or to deplore democracy than to say exactly what it is.1912, William Sharp McKechnie, The New Democracy and the Constitution. From the entry invoke
• "No one deplores freaks of their set more than those involved in attempting to fade in the background.2012, Todd J. Ormsbee, The Meaning of Gay: Interaction, Publicity, and Community among Homosexual Men in 1960s San Francisco, Lexington…. From the entry hair fairy
• "Arlene, Marlene, Darlene, they're all hayseed names," she deplored.1989, Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, Penguin, published 1989, →ISBN, page 2. From the entry Arlene
• The Cousins changed the game entirely, said the blimpish fellow: much as he might have deplored power tennis or bodyline bowling.1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 3. From the entry bodyline
• An ‘uppish’ stroke was to be deplored.1974, James Herriot, chapter 24, in Vet in Harness, London: Pan Books, published 2006, page 174. From the entry uppish
• He deplored the medireview practice of covering oneself with a filigree of guru-talk and expressing excessive superiority through the blind belief that was prevalent.2006, Yoga Niketan, A Collection of Biographies of 4 Kriya Yoga Gurus by Swami Satyananda Girl, page 120. From the entry medireview
• Robert Holland-Martin, Chairman of the Southern Railway, both deplored the wholesale robbery and petty pilferage which have increased until they have reached appalling dimensions.1942 May-June, “Theft on the Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 130. From the entry appalling
• And in a statement, the leaders said they “deplore postelectoral violence” in Iran, and they pressed Tehran for a diplomatic solution to the standoff on its nuclear program.2009 July 9, Peter Baker, “Poorer Nations Reject a Target on Emission Cut”, in New York Times. From the entry postelectoral
• The poppies were to make cooking oil, poppy-seed oil—Lina and I had to crack and shell the pods—and my poor father, deploring it all, sadly talked of olives.1989 February 12, Sybille Bedford, “Une Vie de Château”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry poppy-seed oil
• Questions on the topic are mainstays on Q&A platform Zhihu, often attracting peppery responses from Sichuan users who deplore ignorance of the subtle differences between their many reddish regional concoctions.2017 June 28, Hatty Liu, “Hot Pot or Malatang?”, in The World of Chinese, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2018. From the entry Zhihu

Meaning of deplore

1. verb To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.
2. verb To condemn; to express strong disapproval of.
3. verb To regard as hopeless; to give up.

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How do you use deplore in a sentence?

Deplore is used as a verb. For example: “I deplore my neighbour for having lost his job.”

What is a short sentence with deplore?

“An ‘uppish’ stroke was to be deplored.”

What does deplore mean?

Deplore means to bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.