deplorable

  • 21deplorable — de|plor|a|ble [dıˈplo:rəbəl] adj formal very bad, unpleasant, and shocking = ↑appalling ▪ The prisoners were held in deplorable conditions . ▪ His conduct was deplorable. >deplorably adv …

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  • 22deplorable — adjective formal very bad, unpleasant, and shocking: Conditions in the prison were deplorable. | a deplorable waste of tax payers money deplorably adverb …

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  • 23deplorable — adjective 1) your conduct is deplorable Syn: disgraceful, shameful, dishonorable, unworthy, inexcusable, unpardonable, unforgivable; reprehensible, despicable, abominable, contemptible, execrable, heinous, beyond the pale Ant …

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  • 24deplorable — adjective a) Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad. He is a deplorable boy, frequently being beaten by his parents. b) To be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion …

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  • 25deplorable — adj. Deplorable is used with these nouns: ↑condition …

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  • 26deplorable — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. lamentable, sad, regrettable, disastrous. See badness, pain, regret. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. lamentable, regrettable, disgraceful, wretched; see faulty , pitiful 1 , poor 2 , unsatisfactory .… …

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  • 27deplorable — adj. 1 exceedingly bad (a deplorable meal). 2 that can be deplored. Derivatives: deplorably adv …

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  • 28Deplorable Word — The Deplorable Word, as used in The Magician s Nephew, by author C. S. Lewis, is a magical curse which ends all life in the fictional world of Charn except that of the one who speaks it. Lewis does not explicitly link the Deplorable Word to… …

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  • 29deplorable — Synonyms and related words: abominable, affecting, afflictive, appalling, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, beneath contempt, beneath one, bitter, blameworthy, bleak, brutal, calamitous, cheap, cheerless, comfortless, contemptible,… …

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  • 30deplorable — de|plo|ra|ble Mot Pla Adjectiu invariable …

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