deplorably
English
[edit]Etymology
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From deplorable + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]deplorably (comparative more deplorably, superlative most deplorably)
- in a deplorable manner
- 1934, J[ohn] B[oynton] Priestley, “To East Durham and the Tees”, in English Journey […], London: William Heinemann in association with Victor Gollancz, →OCLC, section 1, page 330:
- As it is, the miner is one of the most overworked and deplorably underpaid men in the country. […] I know very well that if your supply of coal depended on my walking several miles to a pithead, descending in a cage for half a mile, walking again to the dwindling tunnel where I had to work, then slogging away for about seven hours in that hell, all for something like two pounds a week, your grates would be empty.
- 1866, Herman Melville, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War[1], Supplement:
- But, setting this view aside, dishonorable would it be in the South were she willing to abandon to shame the memory of brave men who with signal personal disinterestedness warred in her behalf, though from motives, as we believe, so deplorably astray.
- 1927, James Branch Cabell, Straws and Prayer-Books:
- Reflection finds the circumstance unfortunate that most of the agreeable actions of life are either forbidden or else deplorably behedged with restrictions.
- 1928 January, Ernest C. Wilson, “A King and a Kingdom That Limped”, in Youth[2], volume 2, number 1, page 13:
- Jezebel, though she bent the knee to Baal, was pleasing in Ahab’s sight; and he saw that her father’s army, though deplorably pagan, wielded heavy swords.
Translations
[edit]in a deplorable manner
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