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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