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deplorable🔊

To be deplored.

To be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion; lamentable.

📑 Synonyms: deplorate pathetic

Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad, wretched.

📑 Synonyms: damnable scornworthy

A person or thing that is to be deplored.

💬 Quotations
[W]hat better is an old fellow, mauled with rheumatism and other deplorables.
Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott (1890)

(specifically US politics, derogatory, neologism) A supporter of Donald Trump.

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