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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2
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
For Chad, these trends are reminiscent of hearing his dad, a plant worker, deplore his workplace’s ‘treating employees as numbers’ culture.
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Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2025
China firmly deplores and opposes this move and will take necessary countermeasures to defend its legitimate rights and interests.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2025
Fair enough; the market doesn’t always deliver great results, and Hayes is right to deplore the commodification of intellectual life.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
People will decide to read things that would be deplored by literary critics or anti-smut campaigners or religious clerics or card-carrying rationalists.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2025
China firmly deplores and opposes this move and will take necessary countermeasures to defend its legitimate rights and interests.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2025
Fair enough; the market doesn’t always deliver great results, and Hayes is right to deplore the commodification of intellectual life.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
People will decide to read things that would be deplored by literary critics or anti-smut campaigners or religious clerics or card-carrying rationalists.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deplore
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The community of 14,000 people mourned the married father of two as a neighborly person who showed up to help others.—
Sophia Tareen,
Chicago Tribune,
20 May 2025
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Henry Long, the father of the victim, released a statement mourning the death of his daughter and calling for Finch to stay in jail.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
18 May 2025
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Don't regret unplayed aces; the world needs your unique contributions.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
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Kenny McPeek, who won the Kentucky Derby last year with Mystik Dan, regrets running his colt back in two weeks.—
John Cherwa,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2025
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Experts in the disaster and climate change communities lament the loss of the database, and its corralling of the cost estimates into an easily accessible format for researchers.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
14 May 2025
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Viewed satirically, Henry Johnson laments — and scoffs at — the absence of principled behavior and social interaction.—
Armond White,
National Review,
14 May 2025
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“Deplore.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deplore. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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