Express strong disapproval of

Usage examples of deplore.

In theory, Jefferson deplored parties or faction no less than did Adams or anyone.

For though he was the greatest advocate of the navy of any American statesman of his generation, Adams deplored the idea of a standing army.

Moreover -- and this is in deed astonishing -- he knew, thanks to his flat ear, either instantly or after some minutes of clairaudient listening, how many dead mealworms the living mealworms in a sack had to deplore, because as he slyly revealed with puckered right eye, right corner of his mouth upward and nose acceding to the movement, the sound made by living worms indicated the number of their dead.

Notwithstanding these rigorous precautions, the emperor Constantine, after a reign of twenty-five years, still deplores the venal and oppressive administration of justice, and expresses the warmest indignation that the audience of the judge, his despatch of business, his seasonable delays, and his final sentence, were publicly sold, either by himself or by the officers of his court.

MacGregor deplored the idea of mixing anything with his precious malts but he was vulnerable to compliments about his ginger wine.

United Nations Security Council will issue a statement, deploring the testing of pure-fusion weapons as being contrary to the de facto moratorium on the testing of nuclear weapons and to global nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear-disarmament efforts.

To Sergeant Towser, who deplored violence and waste with equal aversion, it seemed like such an abhorrent extravagance to fly Mudd all the way across the ocean just to have him blown into bits over Orvieto less than two hours after he arrived.

That lady had begun to talk to him, when they were alone together, in almost a motherly way, confiding to him this or that peculiarity in the characters of her children, deploring her inability to give Adela the pleasures suitable to her age, then again pointing out the advantage it was to a girl to have all her thoughts centred in home.

The influence of the Stoic and Epicurean philosophies of Nova Babylonia was evident in her doctrines, and deplored.

Some pride might be taken in the campaign when at a disadvantage we were facing superior numbers, but now we could but deplore the situation in which these poor valiant burghers found themselves, the victims of a rotten government and of their own delusions.

It then looses itself in countless extravagances, which the contemplating judgment does not countenance, even deplores, but is powerless to check or curb.

We deplore the unnecessary deaths of the three passengers aboard the Fokker Friendship but disclaim all responsibility.

The sultan, General al Hez at his side, would of course deplore the violence and beg that the lives of the other hostages be spared.

I should not have succeeded, for they would have laughed in my face, deplored my ignorance, and the result of it all would have been my dismissal.

It is to be deplored that some of the Leaguers themselves--you know, we number in our ranks many small farmers, ignorant Portuguese and foreigners--have listened to these stories and have permitted a feeling of uneasiness to develop among them.