Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: deplore
IPA transcription: [dɪpl'ɔɹ]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: deplore
    Meaning: express strong disapproval of; "We deplore the government's treatment of political prisoners"
Usage examples
  • I greatly deplore
  • She thought her husband was right, albeit she might in her own heart deplore the necessity of such a decree.
  • We frankly admit and heartily deplore the disorders which Catholics commit, but we deny that they are worse than their Protestant neighbors; and still more emphatically do we deny that the Church is responsible for their disorders.
  • The organ of the Alliance, who would "deeply deplore the recognition of any principle which could be wrested to justify bigotry and persecution," undertakes to point out the "broad and impassable barrier" which divides such principles from those of the association.
  • At present the great mass of the public has sympathy for the law-breaker; just as, in old days, the peasants could not help admiring the outlaw who resisted unjust land laws and robbed the rich, or as today, under the capitalist regime, we can not withhold our sympathy from political prisoners, even though they have committed acts of violence which we deplore.