deplorably
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.61 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
in a deplorable manner
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "Reflection finds the circumstance unfortunate that most of the agreeable actions of life are either forbidden or else deplorably behedged with restrictions."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree English deplorable Middle English -ly English -ly English deplorably From deplorable + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more deplorably (comparative)
most deplorably (superlative)