bewailliterary

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to hate someone or something
hateI hate camping.
detestI detest any kind of cruelty.
loathe"Do you like cabbage?" "No, I loathe it."
despiseShe despised him for the way he treated her.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not liking
abhor
abide
abominate
anti-American
anti-British
civil
cup
deplore
despise
detest
disdain
disdainful
go off
misanthropically
non-fan
not be someone's cup of teaidiom
not go much on somethingidiom
not have a civil word to say about someoneidiom
shy
tire

Examples of deplored

deplored

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Feminist readers attacked its pretension and conservative readers deplored its moral turpitude, while the literati viewed it simply as bad writing.
This decree deplored the poor foreign-language speaking and reading skills of high school and university graduates.
In brief, for these two reasons-introducing uncertainty into the economy and into the polity, and its undemocratic nature-judicial activism is to be deplored.
He deplored this, recognising implicitly that the chances of the confederation emerging as an organisation, even a light and flexible one, were quite small.
He deplored pusillanimity, double-dealing, or disloyalty : his honesty was inexpugnable.
Some reformers, however, deplored the disjointedness of these endeavours.
One might say that their commitment to their children outweighed their identification with a generation which in general deplored divorce.
Many authors have deplored the state of our knowledge of certain parasite taxa.
While social politics was often fashionably deplored, it was a fact of eighteenthcentury political life.
But some new pronunciations mean that word-play and rhyme disappear and this loss is surely to be deplored.
The authors deplored that the published material was not scientifically relevant enough to reach any conclusions.
One of the most significant was the cultural nationalists' insistence that national distinctiveness should be celebrated and encouraged, not deplored.
This last was a development generally welcomed by the left as an extension of pluralism, and less often deplored as an effect of populist nationalism.
Official reports routinely deplored the indifference of urban employers.
In fact, his hopes were in vain; all that he deplored then was repeated in detail in 2002.
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