0 past simple and past participle of deplore
Feminist readers attacked its pretension and conservative readers deplored its moral turpitude, while the literati viewed it simply as bad writing.
This decree deplored the poor foreign-language speaking and reading skills of high school and university graduates.
In brief, for these two reasons-introducing uncertainty into the economy and into the polity, and its undemocratic nature-judicial activism is to be deplored.
He deplored this, recognising implicitly that the chances of the confederation emerging as an organisation, even a light and flexible one, were quite small.
He deplored pusillanimity, double-dealing, or disloyalty : his honesty was inexpugnable.
Some reformers, however, deplored the disjointedness of these endeavours.
One might say that their commitment to their children outweighed their identification with a generation which in general deplored divorce.
Many authors have deplored the state of our knowledge of certain parasite taxa.
