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Meanings of deplorable in English
Synonyms
Examples for "miserable"
Examples for "miserable"
1
It is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state.
2
You behold in me the most miserable monarch in all the world.
3
He was miserable; he had no confidence in himself, in his future.
4
The idea-themiserable fancy rather-hasterribly corrupted the preaching of the gospel.
5
They lived in dirty houses situated in miserable parts of the slums.
1
He said the action was an opportunity to clarify a wretched situation.
2
The household affairs are in a wretched condition; everything is in disorder.
3
Parliament voted to hold the wretched 2016 referendum by an overwhelming majority.
4
Veronica is amazed: isn't Zimbabwe supposed to be a wretched, dangerous place?
5
The colonel sat in wretched silence a few moments; then he arose:
1
It didn't help that I was woeful at school games, of course.
2
Other broader data sources confirm the prime minister's woeful record on parliament.
3
Our behaviour often reveals a woeful lack of understanding of basic arithmetic.
4
Māori Council spokesperson Maanu Paul said the consultation process had been woeful.
5
The incident throws a renewed spotlight on Indonesia's woeful air safety record.
1
We had gone just over six miles, execrable by long-distance hiking standards.
2
Even such conveyances fared hard on the execrable roads of the period.
3
She has littered the whole estate with execrable names and offensive signs:
4
He went up and saw the cross, an execrable symbol to him.
5
The same old execrable Heatherleys looked down from the black oak panellings.
Bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure.
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Usage of deplorable in English
1
Unfortunately, though his size is quite formidable, his speed is quite deplorable.
2
The specific case on Panorama, and any case like it, is deplorable.
3
The army was in the most deplorable condition of weakness and hunger.
4
He expressed the opinion that the world was in a deplorable state.
5
The aspect of the streets on the following day was deplorable enough.
6
Such, in brief, was the deplorable story of the battle of Tewkesbury.
7
On his death I found his papers in the most deplorable confusion.
8
Isn't it actually rather a deplorable picture that Mr McQuoid has painted?
9
The news threw the Dawsbergen diplomats into a deplorable state of uncertainty.
10
The deplorable ease of the Midrashic method readily accounts for its vogue.
11
The deplorable refacings have left few features of interest on the outside.
12
In our business, chaos and uncertainty, while deplorable, can be our friends.
13
Human rights groups criticized conditions there as deplorable and unfit for humans.
14
This shameful death of mine will leave her in a deplorable state.
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Frémont's régime had left the whole department in the most deplorable confusion.
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And the condition of the roads after this disruption is utterly deplorable.
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Deplorable through the time
Deplorable across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common