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Sajjad raihan Posted 7 years ago
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Deplorable impacts

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Deplorable impact

Example: Although technological advances have brought many benefits to the world, it can be argued that these developments will result in more deplorable impacts than positive.

  

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That doesn't work very well. Deplorable is most commonly used in cases where there is some sort of moral judgement involved: His behavior was deplorable . In your sentence, negative or detrimental would be better choices.

  • That doesn't work very well.
  • Deplorable is most commonly used in cases where there is some sort of moral judgement involved: His behavior was deplorable .
  • In your sentence, negative or detrimental would be better choices.
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That doesn't work very well. Deplorable is most commonly used in cases where there is some sort of moral judgement involved:
His behavior was deplorable.
In your sentence, negative or detrimental would be better choices.

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