Definition of Deplorable

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Definition of Deplorable
	Deplorable Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable. Related Definitions: Are, As, Being, Calamitous, Causing, Deplorable, Deplored, Grief, Grievous, Hence, Lamentable, Lamented, Life, Of, Or, Sad, Worthy, Wretched

Deplorable Quotations

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
Virginia Woolf

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
Marcel Proust

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.
Friedrich August von Hayek

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
Gustave Flaubert

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
David Brainerd

The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative.
John Linder

Today, many fans are saddened and upset by the lack of integrity they see in professional boxing that has significantly weakened the sport - the most deplorable problem of which is the treatment of the sport's athletes.
Charles W. Pickering

It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest.
Roger Mahony

Deplorable Translations

deplorable in French is pitoyable
deplorable in German is bedauerlich, bedauernswert
deplorable in Latin is plorabilis, lacrimabilis
deplorable in Norwegian is beklagelig

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