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Deplorably

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de·plor·a·ble  (d-plôr-bl, -plr-)
adj.
1. Worthy of severe condemnation or reproach: a deplorable act of violence.
2. Lamentable; woeful: My finances were in a deplorable state of neglect.
3. Wretched; bad: deplorable housing conditions in the inner city.
de·plora·ble·ness, de·plora·bili·ty n.
de·plora·bly adv.
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Adv.1.deplorably - in an unfortunate or deplorable manner; "he was sadly neglected"; "it was woefully inadequate"
lamentably, woefully, sadly


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But permit me to point out that your life in Lineland must be deplorably dull.
Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context
Your tone is deplorably imprudent, sir--moderate it on the spot
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I told him, too, that he being in other things such an extremely sensible and sagacious savage, it pained me, very badly pained me, to see him now so deplorably foolish about this ridiculous Ramadan of his.
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