very bad and unacceptable, often in a way that shocks people糟透的；令人震惊的；令人愤慨的 synonym appalling- a deplorable incident令人愤慨的事件
- They were living in the most deplorable conditions.他们生活在最糟糕的环境里。🔊🔊
- The acting was deplorable.那演技糟透了。🔊🔊
- We tried to forget the whole deplorable episode.我们试图忘记整个可悲的情节。
- It is deplorable that… It is deplorable there is no legal protection for these children.令人遗憾的是，这些孩子没有法律保护。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryDeplorable is used with these nouns: See full entry Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French déplorable or late Latin deplorabilis, from the verb deplorare, from de- ‘away, thoroughly’ + plorare ‘bewail’.