(v. t.) To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over.
(v. t.) To complain of.
(v. t.) To regard as hopeless; to give up.
(v. i.) To lament.
Example Sentences:
(1) We write to deplore the coalition's withdrawal of support from the hugely successful school sport partnerships (" Michael Gove's plan to slash sports funding in schools splits cabinet ", News).
(2) The standards committee report by a cross-party group of MPs said it "deplored" stings but would "not hesitate to act in such cases if wrongdoing had occurred".
(3) We deplore the proposal of the secretary of state Eric Pickles to “take over” the democratically elected council in Tower Hamlets ( Report , 5 November).
(4) In a decision described as deplorable by some, it emerged on Sunday that Athens had refused to endorse an EU statement criticising the crackdown on activists and dissidents under the Chinese president, Xi Jinping .
(5) While deplorable and to a degree self-defeating, this insouciant defiance also makes a grim kind of sense, both historically and reinforced by recent events.
(6) "The way ministers have sought to blame civil servants in the Department for Transport before any of the facts have been established has been deplorable, but sadly not out of character," said Mark Serwotka, the PCS general secretary.
(7) Deplores the continuing flows of mercenaries into the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and calls upon all Member States to comply strictly with their obligations under paragraph 9 of resolution 1970 (2011) to prevent the provision of armed mercenary personnel to the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Ban on flights 17.
(8) It’s a sign there is an utter ruthlessness and depravity about this movement which is hideous and sickening and deplorable.
(9) Those who deplore Ed Miliband for taking money from Unite, or deplore David Cameron for taking money from millionaires, should support the alternative.” On Saturday Labour’s leader Ed Miliband accused the government of turning a blind eye to the financial affairs of the rich, and claimed the revelations over the industrial scale of tax avoidance at HSBC in Switzerland crystallised a “deeply divisive injustice”.
(10) She depicted Burkhardt's attitude and response as "deplorable" and "unacceptable".
(11) The unprecedented rise in the cost of living and the deplorable state of hospitals have put the people in the exact position that Museveni and his cronies want them to be – a place where many are too worried about their next meal to care about abstract political ideas and rights.
(12) He deplored permissivism, and was not frightened of being quoted to that effect; he was a member of the British Catholic Stage Guild, and served as its vice-president for some time.
(13) From Reuters: "The secretary general said in a statement he was surprised this deplorable crime would happen during the visit of a team of international investigators with the United Nations who are already tasked with investigating chemical weapons use," the official news agency Mena said.
(14) They are Americans, and they deserve your respect.” The chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), Reince Priebus, echoed Pence in a statement, saying: “The truly deplorable thing in this race is the shameful level of condescension and disrespect Hillary Clinton is showing to her fellow citizens.” Trump, per his habit, initially responded on Twitter .
(15) This deficit model is invoked to explain the commonly deplored typically male behavioral and attitudinal characteristics.
(16) Because, as Rafael Behr so astutely observed recently , when immigration minister Mark Harper's rhetoric, in justifying this deplorable campaign, strays in the same breath on to immigration in general putting "pressure on our infrastructure", the distinction between legal and illegal immigrant is lost.
(17) On Twitter on Saturday, the longtime Trump confidante and former Nixon operative Roger Stone embraced the “deplorables” phrase , sharing a meme that grouped supporters of the Republican nominee, including the InfoWars.com host Alex Jones , in a takeoff of the action movie The Expendables.
(18) Errors of famous scientists in the younger past are deplorable.
(19) "There is no consistency in the outlook of the Nigerian maniacs: they use weapons produced by the very capitalist system they claim to deplore, for instance.
(20) Under pressure from Leveson, Gove did agree that both phone hacking and bribery or corruption of officials were to be deplored.
Reprobate
Definition:
(a.) Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected.
(a.) Abandoned to punishment; hence, morally abandoned and lost; given up to vice; depraved.
(a.) Of or pertaining to one who is given up to wickedness; as, reprobate conduct.
(n.) One morally abandoned and lost.
(v. t.) To disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme dislike; to condemn as unworthy; to disallow; to reject.
(v. t.) To abandon to punishment without hope of pardon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The biotin and its attached streptavidin and radiolabel can be removed under mild conditions and the blot reprobed with a different antibody using an identical protocol.
(2) Replacing radioactively labeled probes by nonradioactive ones and detection by chemiluminescence instead of colorimetry allows a nonhazardous handling and offers the possibility of easily reprobing filters in Southwestern analysis.
(3) Repeated strippings and heterologous reprobings resulted in loss of target DNA from UV-immobilized nylon membranes as compared to baked nylon membranes.
(4) Thirty-three of sixty-one flies reprobed with an Endotrypanum probe were positive.
(5) The recurrent dacryocystocele was reprobed and the abnormality was resolved.
(6) DNA from the cDNA-positive cosmid clones was transferred to nylon filters and reprobed with cDNAs to identify restriction fragments that were expressed in these tissues.
(7) How did the Republican party allow that reprobate to hijack it?
(8) Northern blots reprobed with H1t-specific oligonucleotide showed that H1t mRNA remained prominent when TH2B mRNA started to decline after 8-12 days of coculture.
(9) A first technique allows to detect zinc- and DNA-binding proteins immobilized on the membrane; a second (a modification of Southern-Western blotting) makes it possible to detect DNA-binding proteins followed by immunological reprobing.
(10) He whips out his smartphone and records the scene, documenting the offence, and confronts the suspected reprobate with a voice which can boom across a street: “Hey!” California drought shaming takes on a class-conscious edge Read more Corcoran is a drought-shamer.
(11) New probes, based on sequence that lies beyond other restriction sites, are then synthesized, and the membranes are reprobed to reveal new sequence.
(12) Analysis with direct beta counting was also shown not to interfere with the successful reprobing of stripped dot blots with either unique sequence or total genomic probes.
(13) In the longer term the Conservatives only get away with supporting universal values like the rule of law and human rights while also condemning non-white foreigners, immigrants and benefit scroungers, because they are always silently whistling that none of the values we supposedly uphold apply to these reprobates.
(14) Many specimens among 37 other serum samples showed greater or lesser degrees of homology to different probes, as demonstrated by reprobing of samples fixed to nylon membranes.
(15) The hybridized nylon membranes could be stripped of probe and reprobed at least 6 times without loss of signal strength.
(16) These conceptions and their cultural influences incidentally inform us about one of the origins of the reprobation of onanism, as well as one possible way, among many others, for traditional thinking to explain the clinical enigma of depressive syndrome.
(17) (As told in the 1950 World Cup 'final' MBM from And Gazza Misses The Final , written by the excellent Rob Smyth and some other reprobate.)
(18) The Southern blots were reprobed with a cloned fragment of the STA2 glucoamylase gene of S. diastaticus.
(19) If the trailer is any indication , this final series will see the various gangsters and reprobates of the prohibition era attempting to legitimise themselves as businessmen.
(20) Repeated cycles of oligomer probe synthesis and subsequent reprobing permit rapid sequence walking along the genome.