Main entry: deplorable, distressing, pitiful, lamentable, sorry, sad
Definition: bad; unfortunate
Usage: my finances were in a deplorable state; a lamentable decision; her clothes were in sad shape; a sorry state of affairs
Main entry: vicious, reprehensible, condemnable, criminal, deplorable
Definition: bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
Usage: a criminal waste of talent; a deplorable act of violence; adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife
Main entry: deplorable, execrable, woeful, wretched, miserable
Definition: of very poor quality or condition
Usage: deplorable housing conditions in the inner city; woeful treatment of the accused; woeful errors of judgment