deplorable

The state of childcare in this nation goes from inadequate to deplorable, even as compared to the child care centers of the 1940s.

FCC chairman Michael Powell deemed it “classless, crass and deplorable.”

If reports are correct, Iranian nuclear facilities continue their deplorable habit of suddenly blowing up.

And the worst example is the expensive and deplorable Senate race in Massachusetts.

We both remarked on the deplorable weakness of the cream, and had a good laugh over the method of its manufacture.

The French interests in Spain were left in a most deplorable condition.

In New York State the efforts of taxpayers to escape this increasing aggression have had a deplorable effect.

Never, not even under the tyranny of Laud, had the condition of the Puritans been so deplorable as at that time.

His want of sentiment struck me as his one deplorable trait.