deplore

Even economists, who overwhelmingly deplore protectionism, have long recognized its political appeal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Journalist: "What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?"

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Many of the Iranian people, even those who deplore the regime, may support the home team in this fight.

From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026

Despite the achievements, many deplore the accompanying cost of such urban development.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025

If I found matters to criticize and to deplore, they were tendencies equally present in myself.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

Martin Bertao, president of College Republicans of America, said the organization deplores antisemitism and disputed the membership of the young man appearing to salute in the photo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

Unwittingly, zealous regulators have turned stock markets into the casinos that commissioner Crenshaw deplores.

From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026

Eileen enters, greets the son she hasn’t seen in years and deplores the mess and his beard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024

The vetoed section deplores the loss of life of migrants trying to reach Europe, commits to fight trafficking and calls for more work to solve the migration problem.

From Reuters ● Jun. 30, 2023

But has not the last decade abated the "criminal tendencies" which Professor Dubois so deplores?

From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by William Benjamin Smith

Farage said he "deplored" anyone wearing masks or balaclavas at public demonstrations.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

Selznick deplored Hitchcock’s “goddamn jigsaw cutting,” the dreamlike, jagged images that create his signature subjectivity, but Webb didn’t mind it at all.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Two major Islamic bodies, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Al-Azhar, issued statements that deplored the hateful rhetoric — but without making clear who had used it.

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026

In majority-Christian Mar Mikhael on the other side of Beirut, a 68-year-old grocery store owner also deplored the group's decision to enter the war.

From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026

“Yes,” Lee said from the doorway, “and he deplored it. He hated it.”

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

The London university paid tribute to Zhe Wang following the verdict, deploring the loss of "a remarkable writer" adding that her work would be published posthumously in an upcoming Goldsmiths anthology.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025

Americans, in the meantime, kept poking at nominally Spanish California from the sea and overland, looking for weak points and deploring what they and Europeans thought were wasted possibilities in California’s under-exploited amenities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2025

He is liberal of politics, deploring of racism and excruciatingly aware of himself as an outsider.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2023

Turkey’s Foreign Ministry later issued a statement calling Paludan an “Islam-hating charlatan” and deploring the fact that he was allowed to stage the demonstration.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 27, 2023

He released sincere public statements deploring the shooting and condemning it as evil.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow