Meaning of Deplorable | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person or thing that is to be deplored.
2. A supporter of Donald Trump.
   US, derogatory, neologism, specifically

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Examples

“[W]hat better is an old fellow, mauled with rheumatism and other deplorables.”

“[H]eralding, this season, an end⟳ of the most awful of all apparel abominations, that most despicable of all deplorables, the ankle sock.”

“He [Donald Trump] did not say⟳ who “the guys” were—but [John Maguire] Dowd knew he meant the Trump base⟳, the crowds at his rallies, the Fox News watchers, the deplorables.”

“Trump's fate, [Steve] Bannon declared, rested with the deplorables, who had to be brought to the kind of fearful emotional pitch that would get⟳ them to the polls.”

“The self-image of the deplorables is that of the honest, hardworkin' people of the Christian American heartland and South who have⟳ been screwed by Washington, D.C., and the coastal elites since the dawn of time.”

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