Example sentences for: deplored

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

  • More than a few were Christian and monarchist conservatives who deplored Hitler's tendency toward self-deification.

  • Samuel Johnson deplored the superfluous, emphatic use of do , as in I do love: he considered it vitious.

  • The Degas family (which sometimes changed their name to "de Gas" to suggest noble roots) came to prominence through the same international banking connections the Jewish financiers they deplored had.

  • 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."

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


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