Example sentences for: deplored

How can you use “deplored” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • On the contentious issue of gerrymandering, racial or otherwise: The practice is to be deplored not on grounds of high principle, but because, by creating safe seats for one or another party or interest group, it makes "elections meaningless."

  • Though the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 noted and deplored the silence about women in the Declaration of Independence and though nonfeminists have worked toward removing sexism from English, most current activity stems from the women's movement that began in the 1960s.

  • Le Monde 's editorial also deplored the timing of the minister's statement, coming just as NATO is discovering that its worst fears about Serb atrocities were justified and that the accounts by Kosovar refugees were not exaggerated.

  • Representatives of both parties deplored the incident and described it as murder.

  • Malcolm: "Since the object of [Starr's investigation] was to turn the nation against the President, those of us who deplored the investigation from the start can only take satisfaction in Starr's bungling--in this time of few satisfactions."


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