1. The reporters behaved deplorably.

2. Business is deplorably dull.

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

4. 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. Huge stocks of highly enriched uranium and separated plutonium, the fissile material of nuclear weapons, lie around the world, all too often in deplorably insecure conditions.