deplorable

Example Sentences

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"They left me there all night, with damp walls, toilets in a deplorable state with hundreds of cockroaches and fecal matter that has built up over months," Castro recounted.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

Ms Doutre also said detainees are often kept at facilities with "deplorable" conditions.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025

Sly, wry, adorable and deplorable, Guillaume Marbeck is priceless as the endlessly irritating and yet frustratingly charismatic Godard in one of the year’s brightest pictures, a rare standout in a sea of multiplex mediocrity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

Two bears rescued from "deplorable conditions" in Armenia by an East Sussex charity have been making the most of their new lives in a bear sanctuary.

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2025

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