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DEPLORABLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bad; unfortunate
Example:
a sorry state of affairs
Synonyms:
deplorable; distressing; lamentable; pitiful; sad; sorry
Classified under:
Similar:
bad (having undesirable or negative qualities)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
Example:
adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife
Synonyms:
condemnable; criminal; deplorable; reprehensible; vicious
Classified under:
Similar:
wrong (contrary to conscience or morality or law)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of very poor quality or condition
Example:
woeful errors of judgment
Synonyms:
deplorable; execrable; miserable; woeful; wretched
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
inferior (of low or inferior quality)
Context examples:
Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There will be a deplorable scene, whenever we are married.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A most deplorable want of complexion.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
For that reason I turned away from you this evening when you upset my books, for I was in danger at the time, and any show of surprise and emotion upon your part might have drawn attention to my identity and led to the most deplorable and irreparable results.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was indeed a deplorable spectacle.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was going out at my door on the morning after that deplorable day of headache, sickness, and repentance, with an odd confusion in my mind relative to the date of my dinner-party, as if a body of Titans had taken an enormous lever and pushed the day before yesterday some months back, when I saw a ticket-porter coming upstairs, with a letter in his hand.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The heat was excessive; he had never suffered any thing like it—almost wished he had staid at home—nothing killed him like heat—he could bear any degree of cold, etc., but heat was intolerable—and he sat down, at the greatest possible distance from the slight remains of Mr. Woodhouse's fire, looking very deplorable.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
