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Example sentences for: deplore

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If told of an especially good trattoria in Rome, they might express much gratitude for the information--and deplore their own laziness in always going to the same old Sabatini they had first encountered while vacationing in Italy with their parents.
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.
Experts deplore convenience gambling.
According to an editorial in the Daily Telegraph , "The decision is cause for collective rejoicing among those who deplore Mr. Fayed's malevolent influence on our public affairs, particularly his disgraceful claim that the British secret services assassinated Diana, Princess of Wales."
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.