Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Deplorableness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Deplorableness.
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- noun The quality of being
deplorable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Villainous Gru couldn't garner this much deplorability when he tried to steal the moon.
Flix for Senator Dodd Al Lewis 2011
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St. Augustine expounded on the moral deplorability of torture thus: "If the accused be innocent, he will undergo for an uncertain crime a certain punishment, and that not for having committed a crime, but because it is unknown whether he committed it."
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Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability — take, for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.
Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006
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While the author admits there a number of lower cost solutions that may work, he discounts them, citing the deplorability of human nature, wherein drivers would figure out the longer light periods and run the lights anyway.
unknown title 2009
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While the author admits there a number of lower cost solutions that may work, he discounts them, citing the deplorability of human nature, wherein drivers would figure out the longer light periods and run the lights anyway.
unknown title 2009
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