Deplore is an English word with synonyms like knock or plain. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Deplore meaning
- To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.
- To condemn; to express strong disapproval of.
- To regard as hopeless; to give up.
Synonyms of Deplore
Using Deplore
- The main meaning on this page is: To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for. | To condemn; to express strong disapproval of. | To regard as hopeless; to give up.
- Useful related words include: knock, quetch, sound off, plain.
- In the example corpus, deplore often appears in combinations such as: deplore the, to deplore, deplore in.
Context around Deplore
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 6 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Deplore
- In this selection, "deplore" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, week, activists, further and priti stand out and add context to how "deplore" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include came to deplore and came to deplore the rabble. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "deplore" sits close to words such as abad, abolishment and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with deplore
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
What characteristics do I most deplore in other people? (9 words)
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? (9 words)
I deplore the idea of setting myself up to fail. (10 words)
He has said he has no intention to resign, and maintains he is the victim of a conspiracy of left-wing opponents and media figures who deplore his nationalist agenda and are frustrated by their inability to vote him out of power. (42 words)
Even while broadsheet commentators this week deplore Priti Patel’s alleged bullying of senior Whitehall officials (denied by the home secretary), in the very next paragraph they chalk it up as the inevitable price of all that reforming zeal. (39 words)
No surprise, Boston academic Tammy R. Vigil’s Melania and Michelle: First Ladies in a New Era finds much to love in the wife of a Democratic president and much to deplore in the wife of a Republican president. (39 words)
What characteristics do I most deplore in other people? (9 words)
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? (9 words)
Example sentences (18)
On the contrary, we would deplore the moral turpitude of inaction.
I deplore the idea of setting myself up to fail.
What characteristics do I most deplore in other people?
Even while broadsheet commentators this week deplore Priti Patel’s alleged bullying of senior Whitehall officials (denied by the home secretary), in the very next paragraph they chalk it up as the inevitable price of all that reforming zeal.
Animal rights activists deplore the way chickens (and other animals) often suffer under debilitating conditions and live brief lives devoid of any semblance of a normal existence—especially when their value is reduced to dollars.
He has said he has no intention to resign, and maintains he is the victim of a conspiracy of left-wing opponents and media figures who deplore his nationalist agenda and are frustrated by their inability to vote him out of power.
In response to homophobic comments made by Australian rugby player Israel Folau, Brennan posted on Instagram this month that, as a 16-year-old, Folau’s words “would have made me further deplore who I was”.
No surprise, Boston academic Tammy R. Vigil’s Melania and Michelle: First Ladies in a New Era finds much to love in the wife of a Democratic president and much to deplore in the wife of a Republican president.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Its determination that fair share union fees somehow violate the US Constitution is just the kind of terrible ‘Judicial Activism,’ which some Justices profess to deplore.
Shay has little to say about such religious themes as the afterlife, except to deplore the pagan practice of murdering slaves in the hope of keeping them as servants in the next world.
They deplore his human rights abuses, his subversion of democratic institutions, and his perceived efforts to overturn Turkey’s secular tradition.
Whilst none of us blame venues for cancelling because they are afraid of violence, we do deplore the excuses presented by some of them.
Himmler distrusted the SA and came to deplore the ‘rabble-rousing’ brownshirts (despite once having been a member) and what they considered to be the indecent sexual deviants amid its leadership.
Lippmann's elitism had consequences that he came to deplore.
No, I don't have any regrets about my part in the invention of the airplane, though no one could deplore more than I do the destruction it has caused.
Some deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood.
The Vatican protested to the Slovak government that it "deplore(s) these..
Common combinations with deplore
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- deplore the 7×
- to deplore 5×
- deplore in 3×
- most deplore 2×
- deplore his 2×