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Adjective: deplorable  di'plo-ru-bul
  1. Bad; unfortunate
    "my finances were in a deplorable state";
    - distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry
     
  2. Of very poor quality or condition
    "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city";
    - execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched
     
  3. Bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
    "a deplorable act of violence";
    - condemnable, criminal, reprehensible, vicious

See also: bad, inferior, wrong

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