Deplorably synonyms

The priests of the Greek Church, on whom the rural population depend for instruction, are often deplorably ignorant.

The bravest of their warriors sometimes knew deplorably little about it; distinction on that field they cheerfully accorded to pious men like Ibn Mas`ud.

The energy with which it was undertaken was the more remarkable because elsewhere throughout the United Kingdom the prisons, with few exceptions, remained deplorably bad.

But the traditional methods of Roman administration were deplorably ineffective; on the accession of Gregory XVI.

It continued to suffer, sometimes deplorably, in most of the wars waged by Sweden, especially with Russia and Denmark.