deplorableness

State of disgrace

The quality of being deplorable—deserving strong condemnation or causing grief.

The word appears in formal or literary contexts to characterize something's wretchedness or moral bankruptcy: the deplorableness of the living conditions, the sheer deplorableness of his conduct.

Deplорability is more common in contemporary usage.

disgrace

shame

Painful awareness of failure

stigma · scandal · discredit · humiliation · disrepute · notoriety · degradation · disesteem · disfavor · tarnish

repugnance

revulsion

Intense physical disgust

aversion · antipathy · distaste · repulsion · detestation · odiousness · offensiveness · obnoxiousness · heinousness · vileness

condemnation

denunciation

Formal public accusation

rebuke · reproach · indictment · castigation · vilification · reprehension · admonishment · chastisement · reprimand · blame

wretchedness

misery

Intense prolonged distress

hopelessness · despair · pitifulness · distress · suffering · affliction · grievousness · sorrowfulness · mournfulness · plaintiveness

Opposites
moral quality

deplorablenessadmirableness

Quality deserving praise

praiseworthiness · virtuousness · nobility · righteousness · moral excellence

worthiness of regard

deplorablenessadmirability

Quality deserving high regard

respectability · venerableness · exemplariness · reputability · dignity

Family

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G