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
He was always short of money, but writers were deploring that condition before Columbus set sail.
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
In the craggy gorge of Puertonuevo, as he was being carried over some unusually difficult ground in a chair, his attendants were deploring the extreme ruggedness of the pass.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
The men were deploring the absence of Don Martin.
From The Shadow of the Cathedral by Mrs. W. A. Gillespie
