deplore
verb (used with object)
to regret deeply or strongly; lament.
is deploring
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present progressiveof deplore (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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It is deploring your attention span and missing the flow, the trance, of entering a narrative world without bringing the real one along.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2014
She talks eloquently about how "judgmental" our culture is, deploring its casual cruelty – especially online.
From The Guardian ● May 19, 2013
For example, if you look at the journal Science, the editor-in-chief Bruce Alberts has a series of editorials in which he is deploring the way science is taught in the U.S.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2012
All the world is deploring the secularizing of Sunday.
From An Autobiography by Catherine Helen Spence
Would not you and yours have eaten these sheep, which all the village is deploring, if I had not?
From The Original Fables of La Fontaine Rendered into English Prose by Fredk. Colin Tilney by Frederick Colin Tilney
