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deplorable

[dih-plawr-uh-buhl, -plohr-] / dɪˈplɔr ə bəl, -ˈploʊr- /


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After all, according to the EFL commission, the club employed "a particularly deplorable approach" by using junior members of staff to conduct the spying "at the direction of senior personnel".

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

When he announced the charges last week, Hochman said that while the comments captured by Flores were deplorable, he couldn’t turn a blind eye to a blatant violation of the state’s two-party consent recording statute.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

As a result, fallow fields are in a "deplorable state, and at the slightest spark, the blaze spreads like wildfire" due to vegetation dried out by the heat.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

And all his rhetoric was deplorable: He, without any credible evidence, blames the flu vaccine for potentially triggering his SD.

From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026

She considered it a deplorable lapse on the part of her subjects not to tell her everything and at once.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman




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