deplorable

It is too late to help those who were killed by ISIS, but those who escaped and survived are living in deplorable conditions.

These things are absolutely deplorable, but they were par for the course for some of the more dedicated “Gamers” in the community.

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

The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is fairly deplorable from a feminist standpoint; plus, it has very little to do with sports.

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

The Spanish troops fared far worse; their condition became more and more deplorable.

Now, go and mend that deplorable frock, and if you don't dream over it, you won't waste too much of your holiday.

I was here a witness of a deplorable scene, a consequence of an erroneous religious belief of the otherwise amiable Hindoos.

The post-office strike has already shown us what deplorable disasters even a skirmish can bring about.

This is the end; what was the beginning,—the conditions necessary to bring about this deplorable result?