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And for decades, the Pac-12 has been the unquestioned leader in diversity hiring in college football, where the national canvass has been deplorably white.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 22, 2021

He apologised "unreservedly" for the offence his "deplorably inflammatory" words had caused, saying he has spoken last month "with awful clumsiness".

From BBC • Jul. 6, 2020

Jesus refused to treat women as inferiors despite living in a culture that treated them deplorably.

From New York Times • May 12, 2018

Yet even when the first blush of victory wore off, Ms. King continued to be a deplorably bad sport, devoid of even a shred of magnanimity.

From Washington Post • Aug. 14, 2016

Since some 15,000 people were jammed into an area meant to house 5,000, at most, the sanitation system was deplorably inadequate.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson