Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a manner to be deplored; lamentably; miserably: as, manners are deplorably corrupt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a deplorable manner.
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- adverb in a
deplorable manner
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- adverb in an unfortunate or deplorable manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Is there some dynamic at work wherein the Scamosphere calls forth the scam-baiters to do good deeds, in response to bad deeds by scammers, but then the very doing of the deeds somehow draws forth a kind of deplorably vicious joy in inflicting psychic injury?
How To Trick an Online Scammer Into Carving a Computer Out of Wood 2007
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Is there some dynamic at work wherein the Scamosphere calls forth the scam-baiters to do good deeds, in response to bad deeds by scammers, but then the very doing of the deeds somehow draws forth a kind of deplorably vicious joy in inflicting psychic injury?
How To Trick an Online Scammer Into Carving a Computer Out of Wood 2007
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All other restaurant food we have had in Oaxaca and we have eaten out many times in that town, has been deplorably mediocre to awful.
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In a seminal piece of writing, and a turning point in American journalism, Upton Sinclair exposed the atrocities of the meat-packing industry, which constituted a threat to public health, an extreme danger to the workers in the industry, and deplorably cruel treatment of animals.
J Henry Fair: This Little Piggy Went to Market... J Henry Fair 2011
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All other restaurant food we have had in Oaxaca and we have eaten out many times in that town, has been deplorably mediocre to awful.
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All other restaurant food we have had in Oaxaca and we have eaten out many times in that town, has been deplorably mediocre to awful.
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Just look at the deplorably racist CD distributed at the RNC against the black & Hispanic communities.
Senators signal fierce ideological debate in Sotomayor hearings 2009
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In a seminal piece of writing, and a turning point in American journalism, Upton Sinclair exposed the atrocities of the meat-packing industry, which constituted a threat to public health, an extreme danger to the workers in the industry, and deplorably cruel treatment of animals.
J Henry Fair: This Little Piggy Went to Market... J Henry Fair 2011
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The Conservatives have blundered into the delicate and antiquated architecture of British police governance in a deplorably foolish way.
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All other restaurant food we have had in Oaxaca and we have eaten out many times in that town, has been deplorably mediocre to awful.
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