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Definition of Deploringly
1. adv. In a deploring manner.
Definition of Deploringly
1. Adverb. In a deploring manner. ¹
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Definition of Deploringly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deploringly
Literary usage of Deploringly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Complete by Charles Dickens, Thomas Power James (1873)
"... and he shakes his head deploringly. "I said, you know,^that I should make you
an antidote to those black humors ; and you said you hoped I would consign ..."
2. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (1908)
"... shook his head deploringly at Twemlow, and mutely expressed in reference to
the venerable figure standing before him with eyes upon the ground : " What ..."
3. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1860)
"The Council write deploringly to big Lordship. They " pray "—as they phrase it—"
in humble, civil, and obliging terms, to have the prisoner safely returned ..."
4. The Bookman (1907)
"Kind old ladies like him, though they shake their heads deploringly over his
shortcomings. In short, he is regarded as wholly incorrigible, which does not ..."
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