How To Use Deplorable In A Sentence

That which is soft and effeminate, which is calculated to excite the passions, by multitudes of ambiguous expressions, (not the less dangerous for being so cloaked) should be considered by Christians as an abuse the more deplorable, as it has even been censured and condemned by the pagans. The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
We have received a complaint from some tourists about a bear being mistreated and kept in deplorable conditions in a snake farm in Pattaya.
They fail to realize that elderly people, when reduced to a deplorable state of solitude, have all the more need for someone to talk to and interact with.
I have been forced to admit diverse propositions which appear somewhat deplorable.
The sanitary conditions are deplorable and there are no separate toilets for women.

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The history of the early years following the cession is a sad record of violence and general lawlessness among the white inhabitants, and of deplorable Indian troubles. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
Deplorable as this preference may be, it's hardly as deplorable as the gulf which these cultural assumptions themselves created between the lowbrow public and the university-educated art world and artists.
It reopened, but diners have remained in the dark about the deplorable hygiene standards. Times, Sunday Times
This arises largely and insidiously from the slavish adoption here of virtually all Americanisms - some invaluable, the majority deplorable.
The adjuster came within 20 minutes, called a flatbed tow truck, completed all the insurance paperwork, and assured us that the cuota would pay for everything because the road conditions were indeed deplorable. Traveling Mexico's Cuotas (Toll Roads)
Whatever you may think about the morality of abortion, these are the most deplorable scare tactics.
I had hoped the USOC and USA Gymnastics would have promoted the interests of athletic achievement and sportsmanship from the beginning of this incident by defending Paul Hamm from the FIG's deplorable actions, yet they had left Paul alone on a limb for eight days," said Sensenbrenner. USATODAY.com - FIG asks Hamm to give up gold; USOC outraged
While the economic and political distortions are deplorable, is pales in importance to another distortion that has a long-term corrosive effect on the very fiber of our economic system. Forbes.com: News
Older people in the locality cannot recollect the roads ever having been in a more deplorable condition.
The matter in your essay is good but the style is deplorable.
The hotel is described as ‘pretty appalling’ and its attempt to mimic the postern on the walls opposite has been called ‘deplorable’.
I find the media'sgrowing obsession with smut and sensation deplorable.
For a nation that prides itself on giving generous donations to bolster up a welfare service that ought to be the primary care of government, this kind of treatment is deplorable.
The confinement made him fretful and exacting, and the old Marquise ascribed the change in his behaviour to the deplorable influence of his tutor, a "laic" recommended by one of Raymond's old professors. The Custom of the Country
Torquemada, on hearing that the prisoner's gold coin corresponded with those others which had been in the possession of the murdered man, thought it deplorable. South Wind
The continued deplorable condition of districts, villages, towns and cities throughout the country leaves lots to be desired.
The reality of his feeling reference to the painful position of the defendant's father, the sincerity of his regret on behalf of the bank, for the deplorable exigency under which proceedings had been instituted, spread a kind of blankness through the court; men frowned thoughtfully, and one or two ladies shed furtive tears. The Imperialist
The game was played in deplorable weather conditions and in the end Galway emerged victorious by a point.
Since the first conquests of the caliphs, the establishment of the Turks in Anatolia or Asia Minor was the most deplorable loss which the church and empire had sustained. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
He halves nothing whatever with our more earnest-minded juniors who -- perennially discovering that all religions thus far put to the test of nominal practice have, whatever their paradisial _entrée_, resulted in a deplorable earthly hash -- perennially run yelping into the shrill agnosticism which believes only that one's neighbors should not be permitted to believe in anything. The Queen Pedauque
The creation of the ephori was a sort of compromise measure, a concession to appease the people of Sparta, and, as an extension of the elective franchise, was most deplorable in its results. Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice
I write on behalf of a number of Joseph Rowntree pupils - all of whom have received deplorable service from the bus service over recent weeks.
State Department spokesman Mark Toner says if reports that government security forces contributed to her death are accurate, then it demonstrates what he calls a "deplorable disregard for human dignity and respect" by Iranian authorities. Iran, Opposition Groups Dispute Cause of Activist's Death
my finances were in a deplorable state
Apart from a few more recherché knots, there are three basic ways of knotting a tie nowadays: the Windsor (a deplorable invention), the Half-Windsor (ditto, without even the courage of its convictions) and the classic four-in-hand.
Radio Zambia Saturday quoted Kaunda as urging the South African government to intervene quickly to stop what he termed a deplorable human carnage. ANC Daily News Briefing
SinoSoul.com is a food blog where you might find the word "deplorable" describing the burger "ball of beef" at well-respected L.A. restaurants such as The Hungry Cat and Jar. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Refugees have to live in most deplorable conditions human beings can face.
The sexist behaviour of city analysts and senior managers is certainly deplorable; however the world of trade is a pressurised one, and everyone is in need of some light relief.
Whatever you may think about the morality of abortion, these are the most deplorable scare tactics.
Talavera de la Reina, Sierra Morena, Saragossa, Montmiraill, Champaubert, and Montéreau; he was present, also, at the too deplorable day of Waterloo; he was then ensign-bearer of his regiment. Naufrage de la frigate la Méduse. English
Another matter of serious concern to the people in the Hannon's Strand area is the deplorable condition of the entrance to the beach.
A fall I had in jumping from the window of the Tuileries, the fatigue of a tramp of twelve leagues, and my painful reflections on the deplorable events which had just taken place, overcame me to such a degree that I had a very high fever. The Ruin of a Princess
A feelingless cognition that certain circumstances are deplorable, and nothing more. Skinned
For the next few days a deplorable kind of ostentation seemed to possess the Jews. The Complete Stories
These kinds of outrages are deplorable and the perpetrators should be brought to justice.
It is deplorable that the delay in undertaking the job was mainly attributed to the two parties' differences over channels of negotiations.
Meanwhile, a source close to the investigation told the newspaper the girl and her family are living in deplorable conditions.
Most, especially men, drank to escape deplorable housing conditions and the desperation of a life going nowhere.
The Federal Road Safety Corps [FRSC] yesterday in Lagos raised an alarm over what it called the deplorable state of the 17-km Epe-Ibeju in the state. AllAfrica News: Latest
What we resent is the deplorable, but democratic, success of junk culture and junk food, and of a political system which seems to be run by corrupt imbeciles.
The animals used for this trade are raised under deplorable conditions and killed solely for their skins and furs.
Its focus has changed, that's all: it's no longer praise for conduct seen as admirable, but condemnation of antics seen as deplorable.
Should you be able to communicate in Thai (my wife is Thai) you will find the quality of advice deplorable.
It is in the sombre years of the fourteenth century that the new era of poetry begins, and Guillaume de Machault is the name usually associated with the first effusion of that deplorable cataract of ballades and rondeaux. Introduction
It is deplorable and very dangerous for the civic group to openly incite young soldiers who live on their orders to be insubordinate to the words of their superiors.
Although not as large an operation as a puppy mill, backyard breeders often possess the same deplorable conditions.
‘I think it is a deplorable state of affairs,’ he told the town council.
Manifestly, it was going to be anathema to an ultramontane like him, who had seen over the previous five years the government install what he saw as a deplorable new godless and materialist proletarian state.
The lues venerea can only be said to be incurable when the disease is got to that deplorable point by neglect, that the emaciated and hectic state of the patient's constitution forbids the use of mercury.
The judge said that discrimination against homosexuals is deplorable.
We are now resolved to expiate each and every deplorable outrage committed against Thee; we are determined to make amends for the manifold offenses against Christian modesty in unbecoming dress and behavior, for all the foul seductions laid to ensnare the feet of the innocent, for the frequent violations of Sundays and holy days, and the shocking blasphemies uttered against Thee and Thy saints. Feast of the Sacred Heart
The killing of innocents is deplorable and appalling in any part of the world.
The changes in LC policy would have far-reaching implications for the scholarly community and are deplorable. Bad News From the Lilbrary of Congress
'Deplorable phraseology or not, I've got enough data to put the probability out beyond the nine-sigma point-the same probability as that an automatic screw-machine running six-thirty-two brass hex nuts would accidentally turn out a thirty-six-inch jet-ring made of pure titanite, diamond ground, finished, and fitted. Masters Of The Vortex
In her Letters home, Fairchild described the deplorable conditions the nurses had to endure.
He also made reference to the prisoner abuse scandal, saying the world has been troubled by what he called deplorable events. CNN Transcript Jun 4, 2004
But this takes us to arguably the most deplorable aspect of the scandal: the alleged use of the scalpel. Times, Sunday Times
Since that time the elk have continually overpopulated their habitat, leaving the range in often deplorable condition.
The remark showed a deplorable lack of taste.
This might tend to barbarize, demoralize, and exasperate the whole mass and produce most deplorable consequences. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
Not to say that Russell isn't right when he laments the deplorable state of modern culture.
What he was later to describe as a ‘deplorable mistake’ was then made, when it was decided to ship the internees elsewhere - a theme of British history to which Australians can relate.
Dexter Allison is no doubt an estimable man in many ways, even though, as you feel positive, he has a tendency to acquisitiveness which is deplorable. Then I'll Come Back to You
What he could do is extend an apology, as he has no evidence whatsoever to corroborate his deplorable allegation.
The matter in your essay is good but the style is deplorable.
Yes, we should reward the single mother who betters herself, but we cannot neglect the mugger: as a human being, he deserves compassion - no matter how deplorable his actions.
One of the main reasons for the fall in theatre audience is due to the deplorable condition of the theatres.
That does not seem possible, however, when our roads are in such deplorable condition, food prices are so high and the crime rate is rising daily.
Despite my polite rebuff, Adam returned to my cell door a week later and eagerly divulged his deplorable obsession.
The result was a most deplorable tragedy, by which an estimable and unoffending lady was killed by a rifle bullet.
Many human beings are under the deplorable mistake of supposing we live on slimy water and dirty insects – ha, ha, ha! whereas our cuisine is astounding in variety and delicacy of material and flavour. The Tapestry Room: A Child's Romance
The barns were in deplorable condition. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
It is deplorable that the government's impotency in dealing with illegal labor movements has given union workers a presumptuous belief in bullying tactics.
An official, who requested anonymity, said the school was closed one week earlier last term because of the deplorable conditions.
A deplorable number of recent works habituate us to thinking about Afghanistan as what Liam Fox, Britain's defence secretary, called a "broken 13th-century country", defined solely by pathologically violent men and silently brutalised women. Burkas and bikinis
Another step in advance, and that most deplorable condition is reached in which seminal losses occur without erotic thoughts, and even without the slightest degree of sexual excitement of any sort, a condition known as spermatorrhoea, or spermatorrhagia, which is considered under another head. Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.
He is a man of about 35, in a deplorable plight, bespattered with mud and blood and snow, his belt and the strap of his revolver-case keeping together the torn ruins.
It is deplorable that the ruling camp is meddling in the special investigation team's probe into the $500 million secret payment to North Korea.
He added that the whole road structure and footpaths in the area were in a deplorable condition.
Such an unthinkable and deplorable situation would affect every aspect of potential business and the quality of life for the future generations in Swindon.
The articles on Agriculture, for example, are admirable alike for the fulness and precision with which they expose the actual state of France; for the clearness with which they trace its deplorable inadequateness back to the true sources; and for the strong interest and sympathy in the subject, which they both exhibit and inspire. Diderot and the Encyclopaedists
Does not the Minister realise that the unemployment figures in the Province are deplorable?
Here, therefore, Al – Islam at once avoided the deplorable assumption of the Hebrews and the Christians, — an error which has been so injurious to their science and their progress, — of placing their “firstman” in circa B.C. 4000 or somewhat subsequent to the building of the Pyramids: the The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
From this deplorable apathy Cortes was roused by fresh advices urging his presence in Mexico.
The INO industrial officer said the situation at CUH, where medical swabs were running low, was deplorable.
They found that although conditions were generally deplorable the cells of cartel bosses looked more like hotel rooms. Times, Sunday Times
An American aid worker was among those killed and US President Barack Obama, condemning what he called deplorable and cowardly attacks, said Washington was ready to help Uganda in hunting down those responsible. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
They were living in the most deplorable conditions.
The great cause of the present deplorable state of English poetry is to be attributed to that absurd and systematic depreciation of Pope, in which, for the last few years, there has been a kind of epidemical concurrence. Life of Lord Byron With His Letters And Journals
When we consider just how disgusting and deplorable a crime like rape is on a person, I do not see that there is much difference between drugging people, stupefying them, or holding a knife to their throat.
During the past two days, residents have been setting fires on the streets to highlight deplorable living conditions.
It's taken so long to fix the jail for many reasons, Valdez says, most notably what she describes as the deplorable conditions she found there when she was first elected. PegasusNews.com stories
This was, after all, a world in which literacy was rare, and the quality of preaching deplorable.
Personal health and cleanliness were deplorable. Christianity Today
It is, therefore, by no means surprising that it does not supply the inhabitants with provisions… The situation of the people in 1783 was deplorable.
He said that the minister had himself once visited the center and seen the deplorable condition of the road but no action had been taken even then.
Many Victorian cultural critics thundered that railways dragged deplorable rationalisation and standardisation in their train.
The material appears to be the local ironstone, the lettering only moderately accomplished, the setting-out deplorable. The Times Literary Supplement
But for men who live under some constant sense of God and an eternal accountableness unto him, and thereon do many things he requires, and abstain from many sins that their inclinations and opportunities would suggest and prompt them unto, not to endeavour after that universal holiness which alone will be accepted with him, is a deplorable folly. Pneumatologia
He has put into his paintings every phase of life, and it is all so genuine and accurate, so true to reality that in his work, after five centuries, the Italian trecento still lives for us, despite the deplorable state of the frescoes, the defects of his perspective, and the childlike archaism of certain technical formulæ. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
deplorable housing conditions in the inner city
His conduct was deplorable.
The conditions inside the building are deplorable, terrible, disgusting.
Even if their claims are exaggerated, any loss of life is deplorable and unacceptable.
It is a deplorable fact that the officers of certain companies occasionally "unload" undesirable securities upon their employees, and, in order to boom or create a "movement" in a certain stock, will induce the persons under their control to purchase it. True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office
The bins could do with a good hosing down, they are in a deplorable condition.
The killing of innocents is deplorable and appalling in any part of the world.
He added that the whole road structure and footpaths in the area were in a deplorable condition.
The condition of English prisons was deplorable; males and females could be and were crowded into cells together.
These deplorable conditions existed in military prisons of both sides.
If the fanatics who are preoccupied day in and day out with their salvation were healthy, virtuous, and wise, the Laodiceanism of the ordinary man might be regarded as a deplorable shortcoming; but, as a matter of fact, no more frightful misfortune could threaten us than a general spread of fanaticism. Getting Married
Do not mistake my friends, he was not alluding to the "concomitant," the key bearer, the riveter of fetters in that deplorable episode in our national history. Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,
In March he wrote in the Times Literary Supplement how deplorable it is that, though ‘thoroughly demolished in the real world, his views, or the ghosts of such views, still haunt an unteachable intelligentsia’.
VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI lashed out Sunday at what he called the "deplorable" raids carried out by Belgian police who detained bishops, confiscated... The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
After all, not only do we think what the teacher did was deplorable, but it also violated the letter of the law by declaring certain political views unassailable, which is untrue (no matter how PC those opinions are). Patterico's Pontifications
Both sides made enough chances, but the finishing was deplorable, but strangely when the odd score came the quality was top drawer.
T.S. Eliot and his followers, and later with F.R. Leavis in England and the New Critics in the United States, an antiromantic reaction set in, which on various grounds, moral, political, and aesthetic, considered the romantic movement a deplorable break with the great humanist and Christian tradition. ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE
They are living under deplorable conditions with limited access to safe drinking water, proper sanitation and food.
It is abhorrent and deplorable both in its shoddy journalism and blatant personal assault on our artists.
Even if their claims are exaggerated, any loss of life is deplorable and unacceptable.
I don't want to rehearse my criticisms of his tactics or the failures of his deplorable regime during the Oslo negotiations and thereafter.
Chomsky himself has made some of the most deplorable, petty and doubtless sectarian attacks of any leftist I know.
The great cause of the present deplorable state of English poetry," writes Byron, "is to be attributed to that absurd and systematic depreciation of Pope in which, for the last few years, there has been a kind of epidemical concurrence. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
But by the standards of the past it had been a deplorable period in local eyes.
Deplorable though that seems, such acts help to understand the evolution of behaviour.
Trojan, Paris, was privily stolen away out of their country, was greater or more pitiful than this ruthful and deplorable collugency of theirs? Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
The disappearance of subsistence farming is deplorable for many reasons. Infinite in All Directions
As a practical matter, few if any conservatives (even the “less sophisticated ones”) will object to the invalidation of a law that nearly all on the right consider to be both deplorable and unconstitutional. The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Action and Political Action as a Two-Track Strategy for Opposing Obamacare
Reid's Hume, however, takes quite a different tack; he takes it to be a sign of foolishness or error or dupery (in any event, part of the deplorable human condition) to accept the testimony of any source whose veracity hasn't been (or, worse, can't be) established by way of consciousness and reason. Warranted Christian Belief
The authorities should also work to alleviate the deplorable condition of roads to ensure safety.
I am disappointed in the deplorable, unconscionable way they are trying to make this a political issue.
Everyone took turns yelling at and reprimanding Venus for her unhealthy, sinful, and deplorable actions.
And over 450 people with intellectual disabilities are living in deplorable conditions in psychiatric hospitals.
Housing conditions are frequently deplorable, overcrowded, and substandard.
U.S. Justice Department and other agencies to address what she calls the deplorable conditions at some facilities. Chicagotribune.com -
Oh, that by these and the like ways we might manifest our self-condemnation and abhorrency for all that distrust and staggering at the word of God, which arising from unbelief, hath had such deplorable issues upon all our counsels and undertakings! The Sermons of John Owen
A senior police source said: 'It would be deplorable for a career detective to do something like this. The Sun
During the past two days, residents have been setting fires on the streets to highlight deplorable living conditions.
a deplorable act of violence
A spokesman said: 'These deplorable acts have no place in our school. The Sun
The panel emphasised the need to send out a'strong message that such deplorable behaviours do not have a place in football '. Times, Sunday Times
Many live without electricity and work in deplorable conditions.
As very many well-disposed persons, by the unavoidable necessity of their affairs, are so unfortunate as to be totally buried in the country, where they labour under the most deplorable ignorance of what is transacting among the polite part of mankind, I cannot help thinking, that, as a publick writer, you should take the case of these truly compassionable objects under your consideration. The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV
Sunday racing in Britain is generally of such deplorable standard that the exceptions deserve acclaim. Times, Sunday Times
The Chief Constable said that sexual harassment was deplorable.
He said: 'This exposes some deplorable double standards. The Sun
The animals used for this trade are raised under deplorable conditions and killed solely for their skins and furs.
He urged the Chief Minister to do the needful in this regard so that the deplorable condition of jails all over the state could be improved.
The quality of the image is a bit deplorable at times but it really doesn't matter, it's what the people say that does.
Divine Justice has again [illumined] the torch of my days, to make me contemplate more nearly my deplorable enterprize. Selection from _Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred_
Quote: you are not helping soulstrut's strange yet deplorable state right now with this post in about a month some fool is gonna discover an open breakbeat on a shitty Helen Reddy elpee, and she'll become the new Heroine Of The Strut. replacing Sarah Palin and Amy Winehouse. and when they all line up to give her hipster kisses, you're gonna be right there in the middle of the bunch!! so git on the bandwagon NOW Crate Digging Revealed

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