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Oh," cried Eugenie, "you are a bad physiognomist, if you imagine I deplore on my own account the catastrophe of which you warn me.

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 Meanings and Examples of DEPLORE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
deplore
 v.  feel or express strong disapproval of; condemn; express sorrow or grief over; regret
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  Bitterly did he deplore a deficiency which now he could scarcely comprehend to have been possible.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
2  She looked wistfully at him with her sorrowful eyes as he said those words, and her aspect showed that more than one person in the room could deplore the possession of sensitiveness.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People
3  Thus to deplore, each from his point of view, the mutually destructive interdependence of spirit and flesh would have been instinctive with these in critically observing Yeobright.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
4  Oh," cried Eugenie, "you are a bad physiognomist, if you imagine I deplore on my own account the catastrophe of which you warn me.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 95. Father and Daughter.
5  It always happens so in this vale of tears, there is an inevitability about such things which we can only wonder at, deplore, and bear as we best can.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
6  The more I consider this mighty tail, the more do I deplore my inability to express it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
7  It was not that these two loving mentors deplored Scarlett's high spirits, vivacity and charm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  For the appetite Mammy had always deplored, the healthy appetite of a nineteen-year-old girl, now was increased fourfold by the hard and unremitting labor she had never known before.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
9  While Frank and his quiet churchgoing friends realized the necessity of the system, they deplored it just the same.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
10  She laughed at Arobin's pretensions, and deplored Mrs. Highcamp's ignorance.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXV
11  Mrs. Highcamp deplored the absence of her daughter from the races, and tried to convey to her what she had missed by going to the "Dante reading" instead of joining them.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXV
12  He bitterly deplored the false pride which led his friend to a conduct so little worthy of the affection that united them.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
13  She thanked him in the most ardent terms for his intended services towards her parent, and at the same time she gently deplored her own fate.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
14  I deplored the untimely death of Mr. Spenlow, most sincerely, and shed tears in doing so.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
15  His letters expressed how much he deplored it.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
Example Sentence:
1  Jill and sisters esteem Jack's taste in music, but they deplore his taste in clothes.
2  Although I deplore the vulgarity of your language, I defend your right to express yourself freely.
3  Republicans deplore his Old Democrat instincts.
4  We deeply deplore the loss of life.
5  Political commentators have deplored the importance of a candidate's charisma in these days of television campaigning.
6  Any show of surprise and emotion upon your part might have drawn attention to my identity and led to the most deplorable and irreparable results.
7  The matter in your essay is good but the style is deplorable.