(a.) Contemptible; lamentable; causing grief; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable\.

abominable affecting afflictive appalling arrant atrocious awful bad base beastly beneath contempt beneath one bitter blameworthy bleak brutal calamitous cheap cheerless comfortless contemptible debasing degrading demeaning depressing depressive desperate despicable detestable difficult dire disastrous discomforting disgraceful disgusting dismal dismaying disreputable distressful distressing disturbing dolorific dolorogenic dolorous dreadful dreary egregious enormous execrable fetid filthy flagrant foul fulsome grave grievous gross gutter hateful heartbreaking heartrending heinous hopeless horrible horrid horrifying humiliating humiliative infamous infra dig infra indignitatem intolerable joyless lamentable loathsome lousy miserable monstrous mournful moving nasty nefarious noisome notorious obnoxious odious offensive oppressive opprobrious outrageous overwhelming painful pathetic piteous pitiable pitiful poignant rank regrettable reprehensible repulsive rotten rueful sad saddening scandalous schlock scurvy serious shabby shameful sharp shocking shoddy sickening sordid sore sorrowful sorry squalid terrible too bad touching tragic troubling unbearable unbecoming unclean uncomfortable unfortunate unworthy of one upsetting vile villainous woebegone woeful worst worthless wretched