1. Business is deplorably dull.

2. The reporters behaved deplorably.

3. Their own publishers were naturally, if deplorably, reluctant to take their works.

4. 14 Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society; deplorably dissipated and degraded; riotous living; fast women.

5. The hall was at present occupied by two deplorably sober men and their highly indignant wives.

6. He also pointed to the deplorably low absorption rates of resources from the Structural Funds in Poland.