Deplore
[dɪ'plɔː] or [dɪ'plɔr]
Definition
(verb.) express strong disapproval of; 'We deplore the government's treatment of political prisoners'.
(verb.) regret strongly; 'I deplore this hostile action'; 'we lamented the loss of benefits'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over.
(v. t.) To complain of.
(v. t.) To regard as hopeless; to give up.
(v. i.) To lament.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Mourn, bewail, lament, bemoan, grieve for, sorrow over.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Regret, lament, moorn, bewail, bemoan
ANT:Welcome, hail
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Definition
v.t. to feel or express deep grief for.—adj. Deplor′able lamentable: sad.—n. Deplor′ableness.—adv. Deplor′ably.—n. Deplorā′tion (obs.) lamentation.—adv. Deplor′ingly.
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Examples
- It always happens so in this vale of tears, there is an inevitability about such things which we can only wonder at, deplore, and bear as we best can. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Bitterly did he deplore a deficiency which now he could scarcely comprehend to have been possible. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- She might tear her long hair and cry her great eyes out, but there was not a person to heed or to deplore the discomfiture. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He used to teach Sunday school and deplore promiscuity. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Mr. van der Luyden supplied short ones on Opera nights; but they were so good that they made his guests deplore his inexorable punctuality. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- No use to deplore the fact. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Emma could not deplore her future absence as any deduction from her own enjoyment. Jane Austen. Emma.
- It is almost to be deplored, poor fellow, that even the wreck of it remains. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- However, a fine thing must not be deplored because it is open to vicious caricature. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In the Southern States, culture among the negroes is openly deplored, and I do not blame any patriarch for dreading the education of women. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She thanked him in the most ardent terms for his intended services towards her father; and at the same time she gently deplored her own fate. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- These losses are much to be deplored, sir, but we must look 'em in the face. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The existence of such facilities is to be admired rather than deplored. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I deplored the untimely death of Mr. Spenlow, most sincerely, and shed tears in doing so. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- As to deploring her misfortunes, she appeared to have entirely lost the recollection of ever having had any. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Occasionally he recognizes the wilful character of politics: then he shakes his head, climbs into an ivory tower and deplores the moonshine, the religious manias and the passions of the mob. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- With all his learning he is ineffective because, instead of trying to use the energies of men, he deplores them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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