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Example sentences for: deplore

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While we may deplore that sex has become the dominating factor in many young people's lives, the goal should be to expand and emphasize the nonsexual means of personal expression ("liberation") available to them, not to return to the repressive and contaminating moral hypocrisies of a previous age.
Marigold's parents, who never noticed her much except to deplore her, are forced to think about her, and her father discovers that she has "[s]triking looks, not good-looking in fact plain ugly.
Experts deplore convenience gambling.
It is indeed troubling that Clinton could be driven out by voters who don't necessarily deplore his conduct.
Last week brought disappointing news to another faction in the day-care battle: those who deplore the whole institution as harmful to the nation's children.