deplorable

Example Sentences

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"Whoever committed this deplorable wildlife crime should hang their heads in shame."

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

"They left me there all night, with damp walls, toilets in a deplorable state with hundreds of cockroaches and fecal matter that has built up over months," Castro recounted.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

Two bears rescued from "deplorable conditions" in Armenia by an East Sussex charity have been making the most of their new lives in a bear sanctuary.

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2025

The theft, he said, succeeded in “giving France a deplorable image.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

They were living in such wretched conditions that he wrote an article about the deplorable situation.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French