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There is no way to overstate the deplorableness of it all.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2012

I realize that my right collar-bone and three ribs on the same side are broken, and when I remember where I am, the deplorableness and utter helplessness of my condition appal me.

From Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing by Shields, George O.

He was sensible of the deplorableness of my condition, and chid himself for the negligence of which he had already been guilty.

From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden

While absent from Ormond, or listening to her friend's remonstrances, the deplorableness of her condition arose in its most disastrous hues before her imagination.

From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden