very bad and unacceptable, often in a way that shocks people synonym appalling a deplorable incident They were living in the most deplorable conditions. The acting was deplorable.
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NAmE//dɪˈplɔrəbli//
adverb They behaved deplorably. deplorably high/low/badSee deplorable in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: deplorable