1
as in to mourn
to feel or express sorrow for
a statement from the bishops deploring the loss of life in the war overseas
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as in to regret
to feel sorry or dissatisfied about
deplored the fact that his guests were seeing his apartment at its messiest
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Recent Examples of deplore
People will decide to read things that would be deplored by literary critics or anti-smut campaigners or religious clerics or card-carrying rationalists.
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Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Much as Craven may deplore the emergence of large agencies that have taken over their competitors, companies like Allied Universal absorbed many of these fly-by-night outfits, requiring at least a modicum of training where there had been less.
—Harper’s Magazine, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
Though deplored by liberals, such views represent a conservatism far more moderate than outright evasion or denials.
—Jennifer Lind, Foreign Affairs, 12 July 2022
For Nietzsche, this shift was almost entirely to be deplored.
—Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Much as Craven may deplore the emergence of large agencies that have taken over their competitors, companies like Allied Universal absorbed many of these fly-by-night outfits, requiring at least a modicum of training where there had been less.
—Harper’s Magazine, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
Though deplored by liberals, such views represent a conservatism far more moderate than outright evasion or denials.
—Jennifer Lind, Foreign Affairs, 12 July 2022
For Nietzsche, this shift was almost entirely to be deplored.
—Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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On Sunday, Battle’s cousins mourned in a relative’s apartment about a half-mile away from the shooting scene.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
9 Mar. 2025
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Another video geolocated by CNN showed women mourning among the bodies of at least twenty men in civilian clothes who appear to have been shot dead in a village near the town of al Jinderiyah.—
Eyad Kourdi,
CNN,
7 Mar. 2025
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As the Miami Herald columnist Omar Kelly said, teams that pass on Ward will certainly regret it.—
C. Isaiah Smalls II,
Miami Herald,
28 Feb. 2025
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The Democrats ended up losing the vote, but Pettersen doesn't regret making the trip.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
26 Feb. 2025
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Continue reading … 'WE'LL HIRE YOU' – Governor laments federal workers being fired by Trump admin, offers them jobs.—
Fox News,
Fox News,
4 Mar. 2025
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The Islanders lamented their 21 shots on goal – two fewer than their first period against the Nashville Predators on Saturday in an entertaining 7-4 victory.—
Larry Fleisher,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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“Deplore.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deplore. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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