adverb
- in a manner expressing strong disapproval or regret; lamentably
Examples
- She spoke deploringly of the environmental damage caused by the factory.
- The teacher looked deploringly at the student's incomplete homework.
- He shook his head deploringly at the state of the abandoned building.
- The critic wrote deploringly about the film's poor dialogue and weak plot.
- She sighed deploringly as she surveyed the messy room.
- The report deploringly documented the decline in literacy rates among teenagers.