How to Use deplorable in a Sentence

deplorable

adjective
  • And to me, that was deplorable.
    — Scott Pelley, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Fact is, the pushback in some precincts has been, in a word, deplorable.
    — Arkansas Online, 22 Aug. 2020
  • Both of these deplorable leaders have led their peoples to a dead end.
    — Kai Bird, TIME, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Washington is not a place to live in…the morals are deplorable.
    — Longreads, 8 May 2018
  • The deplorable conditions the hostages have faced should make your blood boil.
    — Doug Friednash, The Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The rent is high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable.
    — Scott Howard, National Review, 18 July 2023
  • My cell service was 1 bar at home and work, deplorable service.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Who in the world would draft Bronny James with his deplorable stats?
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2024
  • To not even try and make any adjustments during that game was deplorable to watch.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 25 May 2021
  • Some do deplorable things to hold on to that love; others do deplorable things when that love curdles.
    — Thomas Page, CNN, 21 June 2024
  • Others, were forced to live in deplorable conditions and weren't paid what they were promised.
    — Beth Warren, USA TODAY, 6 July 2024
  • Abuse of any kind, in any circumstance, is always deplorable.
    — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 16 May 2023
  • China has a deplorable record on human rights and all people of faith suffer there.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
  • China has a deplorable record on human rights, and all people of faith suffer there.
    — Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 27 June 2023
  • The accusations levied at two of the biggest hip-hop stars of the last decade are deplorable if true.
    — C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 9 May 2024
  • Something must be done about the deplorable way the system treats bereaved parents.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019
  • Roseanne Barr showed the country what deplorable looks like yesterday.
    — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 30 May 2018
  • These scare tactics are deplorable and are solely to put a target on the backs of public servants.
    — Oumou Fofana, Essence, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The home was in deplorable condition, had no running water and the pool water was green.
    — Kim Chatelain, NOLA.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • For those of us in the media, a dilemma arises in dealing with deplorable and racist tactics such as these.
    — Arkansas Online, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Many of us have held deplorable views in the past, or may end up considering our current views to be such in the future.
    — Chas Danner, Daily Intelligencer, 29 Apr. 2018
  • With Corbyn, the list of deplorable things the British left has accepted is just as long.
    — James Kirchick, Slate Magazine, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Council members also said most of the house was in deplorable condition and the state had tried to shut the owner down.
    — Karen Caffarini, Post-Tribune, 3 May 2017
  • The large human toll casts a light on the deplorable working conditions here — even in the capital.
    — Jason Overdorf, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The only available answer is that the people who put him there must have been a collection of the deplorable and the dim.
    — Michael Ashcroft, Time, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The most apparent reason to confine AI would be to stop it from deplorable acts.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 May 2022
  • Every part of the world has its history, and there’s a part of the history of the South that’s deplorable.
    — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
  • Yes, the Huskies showed a deplorable lack of defense for much of the night, but all that means to me is Utah took advantage.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Mar. 2021
  • So where can Cup junkies turn during these long, lonely weeks of midsummer to fill that deplorable Cup deficit?
    — Michael Calore, WIRED, 25 July 2019
  • Migrants said the death was caused in part by deplorable conditions in the warehouse in the coldest winter months that weren’t addressed.
    — Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2025

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