Deplored

Examples

• 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.
• We were not on terms, which is to be deplored now, but he never WOULD be on terms. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Which of the dead are most tenderly and passionately deplored? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• His letters expressed how much he deplored it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Notwithstanding the tenderness and sweetness of my mother, her husband still deplored his degraded state. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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