deplorably

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deplorably
Adverb
  • Demented cheering was broadcast on social media so loudly that many not-terribly-political Americans took notice.
    Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Not terribly long ago, Spanish restaurants were abundant in this part of Manhattan, but a good number have died off in recent years.
    Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Noel Acciari, who has been horribly banged up in recent years, made his preseason debut in this one.
    Josh Yohe, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • With a parachute billowing behind him, Miura makes a couple of pizza turns on the sheer and horribly icy Lhotse Face before catching an edge and then tumbling several thousand feet to the bank of a crevasse.
    Outside, Outside, 25 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • But not without some awfully tense moments getting there.
    Frank Rajkowski, Twin Cities, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The Matthew Knies, Auston Matthews and Matias Maccelli line was awfully quiet, save for a bad penalty by Knies and the nice empty-netter from Matthews.
    James Mirtle, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Confidence in the media is abysmally low, a finding confirmed regularly by many pollsters asking many different questions.
    Karlyn Bowman, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • The country’s leaders, ostensibly engineers, got their calculations disastrously wrong and built too much of everything, including high-speed rail.
    Andy Browne, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Here are five examples of proposals that went disastrously wrong.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • The Sabres didn’t play quite as poorly as that 4-0 score indicates.
    Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The other people Ye tries to big-foot into indulging his perverse Peter Pan complex fare more poorly.
    Derek Robertson, The Washington Examiner, 10 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Taking just the bare stats into consideration, Rooney's managerial career has been defined by a horrendously low win rate, but that is in addition to a spate of embarrassing off-field antics.
    Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Last seen horrifically disfigured and injured on Earth-X, Peacemaker's alternate-universe brother survived despite Harcourt's attempt to kill him.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
  • When people are perhaps more vulnerable than any other moment and that vulnerability is, horrifically, exploited.
    Diana Arterian, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
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“Deplorably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deplorably. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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