Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To feel or express strong disapproval of; condemn.
- transitive verb To express sorrow or grief over.
- transitive verb To regret; bemoan.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To lament; bewail; mourn; feel or express deep and poignant grief for or in regard to.
- To despair of; regard or give up as desperate.
- To tell of sympathetically.
- Synonyms To bemoan, grieve for, sorrow over.
- To utter lamentations; lament; moan.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To lament.
- transitive verb To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over.
- transitive verb obsolete To complain of.
- transitive verb obsolete To regard as hopeless; to give up.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
bewail ; toweep bitterly over; to feelsorrow for. - verb transitive To
condemn ; to express strongdisapproval of.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb express strong disapproval of
- verb regret strongly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
be the change that you want to see matociquala 2009
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What I deplore is the fact that we are now - what we now - almost everything written or spoken in English and Spanish.
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To deplore is to (1) feel or express grief for; (2) regret strongly; (3) consider unfortunate or desreving of deprecation.
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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.
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The media/Republican evangelical extremist leaders never kill anyone themselves of course, and they always "deplore" the violence.
Frank Schaeffer: Understanding Domestic Terror USA -- It's About the Twisted Theology Stupid! 2009
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In their statement Tuesday, U.S. bishops said they "deplore" the incursions and "call for them to end."
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Norfolk blogger , why would you "deplore" a member of the BNP?
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I don't think Bill Joy is particularly hypocrytical, and he certainly doesn't "deplore" progresss.
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G-8 leaders also said they "deplore" the March 26 attack on the South
BusinessWeek.com -- 2010
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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.
New Statesman 2010
she commented on the word deplore
Deplore is one of those sneaky, too-familiar words that hide how lovely they are until the hundredth-or-so time you've used them.
August 10, 2008
bilby commented on the word deplore
UN Security Council word.
August 10, 2008
yarb commented on the word deplore
Very well put, she.
August 10, 2008
plethora commented on the word deplore
THIS is the words I was trying to think of on Friday! *headdesk* Why, why, WHY would it not come to mind?
August 10, 2008
reesetee commented on the word deplore
Because you wanted it to. That's how the Tip-of-My-Tongue Monster works. He tortures me frequently.
August 11, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word deplore
Deplorable is also fun (and a U.N. Security Council word).
August 11, 2008