deplorable
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When he announced the charges last week, Hochman said that while the comments captured by Flores were deplorable, he couldn’t turn a blind eye to a blatant violation of the state’s two-party consent recording statute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
PC Harper's widow Lissie called the plans "deplorable" and said politicians were "making decisions from behind a desk that will have real and lasting consequences" for the families of victims.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
And all his rhetoric was deplorable: He, without any credible evidence, blames the flu vaccine for potentially triggering his SD.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026
Like other reformers, including Catherine Bauer and Edith Elmer Wood, Simkhovitch saw slums through the narrow prism of their deplorable physical conditions, such as overcrowding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
Eavesdropping is a deplorable habit, but I have developed worse ones since. “... much about them,” I heard Ben say.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Vocabulary lists containing deplorable
The Book Thief
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Grade 11, List 4
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"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift
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