deplore
verb (used with object)
to regret deeply or strongly; lament.
was deploring
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past progressiveof deplore.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Blanchett had descended to the interior archway and was deploring the gentrification of Brooklyn when a line of identically blue and gray flight-suited figures above began clamoring for attention.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2015
At his Chartwell country estate years ago, Winston Churchill was deploring a picture that Art Patron Eddie Marsh had persuaded Mrs. Churchill to buy.
From Time Magazine Archive
In an interview some months ago, pretty Peggy Fleming, queen of the figure skaters, was deploring the low caliber of today's folk heroes.
From Time Magazine Archive
None the less on the eve of their departure she was deploring bitterly the fact that she would not see them on the morrow, when the Terror was magnificently inspired.
From The Terrible Twins by Edgar Jepson
The Eastern point of view always reminds me of the reply of the bishop to the layman who was deploring the poor quality of the clergy.
From A Little Book for Christmas by Cyrus Townsend Brady
