1
as in mourns
to feel or express sorrow for
a statement from the bishops deploring the loss of life in the war overseas
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2
as in regrets
to feel sorry or dissatisfied about
deplored the fact that his guests were seeing his apartment at its messiest
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Recent Examples of deplores
Saft deplores this conciliatory blandness.
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Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
China strongly deplores and firmly opposes the move.
—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
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And as the university mourns Ward’s death, Self helped to put the win in perspective.—
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The rugged dive bar with more than 70 years of history was destroyed in the Eaton fire, and the community still mourns it.—
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Meanwhile, Jim regrets agreeing to a snowball fight with Dwight.—
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Looking back, Ruano regrets not seeing the withholding case through.—
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Post laments that general dining etiquette is not something that’s taught widely in the US.—
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Country musician Zac Brown pulls up to the beach on a motorboat in one scene, while contestant Christian Hubicki laments at another point that his fate in the game may be decided by Jimmy Fallon, a nod to the late-night host having possibly devised an advantage.—
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“Deplores.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deplores. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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