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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"Ethel has such a temper," her mother sighed deploringly.
From The Homesteader A Novel by Oscar Micheaux
Mr. Tupman shook his head deploringly, Mr. Snodgrass drew forth his handkerchief, with undisguised emotion; and Mr. Winkle retired to the window, and sniffed aloud.
From The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
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
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
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
