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1.
causing or being a subject for grief or regret; lamentable: the deplorable death of a friend.
2.
causing or being a subject for censure, reproach, or disapproval; wretched; very bad: This room is in deplorable order. You have deplorable manners!
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Deplorable
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
Example Sentences
- Compared with such a tyranny, every other seemed less deplorable.
- New plants had been added from time to time but the upkeep was deplorable.
- It was in deplorable condition.
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