deplore
verb (used with object)
to regret deeply or strongly; lament.
were 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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Forgotten now is the fact that two years ago some of Franklin Roosevelt's oldest friends were deploring the evident, consuming degree of ambition as almost indecent.
From Time Magazine Archive
While members of the Cercle were deploring the "execrable dueling form" of both men, a despatch from Bucharest announced a duel still more scandalous.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was always short of money, but writers were deploring that condition before Columbus set sail.
From Time Magazine Archive
We were deploring the fact when the worthy Wirth appeared in person, attended by a slim youth in blue-and-silver uniform, whom he introduced to us with considerable emphasis as representing the police.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 by Various
"Strange," said she, "when we were deploring that Mr Dale should obtain his commission by such means!"
From Simon Dale by Anthony Hope
