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Deplore vs Reprimand - What's the difference?

deplore | reprimand |

As verbs the difference between deplore and reprimand

is that deplore is while reprimand is to reprove in a formal or official way.

As a noun reprimand is

a severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.

deplore

English

Verb

(deplor)
  • To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.
    • I deplore my neighbour for having lost his job.
    The UNHCR deplores the recent events in Sudan.
    I deplore not having listened to your advice.
  • To condemn; to express strong disapproval of.
    • I deplore how you treated him at the party.
    Many people deplore the actions of a corrupt government.
  • (obsolete) To regard as hopeless; to give up.
    • (Francis Bacon)

    Synonyms

    * bewail * condemn

    Related terms

    * deplorable * deploration

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    Anagrams

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    reprimand

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.
  • * Macaulay
    • Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To reprove in a formal or official way.
  • * 1983 . Rosen, Stanley. Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image. South Bend, Indiana, USA: St. Augustine’s Press. p. 62.
    • He is struck by Antinous, who is in turn reprimanded by one of the “proud young men” courting Penelope:

    Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * admonish * admonition * rebuke * reprehend * reprehension * reproof * reproval * reprove