deplore
verb (used with object)
to regret deeply or strongly; lament.
deploringly
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a word derived from
deplore.
Example Sentences
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He had always spoken deploringly of that spirit of lawlessness which had given the mountains a bad name.
From The Call of the Cumberlands by Charles Neville Buck
Six or seven hours," the poor fellow deploringly moaned; "I'll be a good many years older by that time.
From Eleven Possible Cases by Franklin Fyles
And the old man shook his head deploringly.
From The Continental Dragoon A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 by Robert Neilson Stephens
"It must be a very great evil," said Madge, deploringly.
From Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall by Charles Major
Nay, don't shake your head so deploringly; things may be hard without being impossible.
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
