The phrase "a deplorable state" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or condition that is very bad or unacceptable.
Example: "The city was in a deplorable state after the hurricane, with debris scattered everywhere and many homes destroyed."
Alternatives: "a dire condition" or "an unacceptable situation".
"[It] was in a deplorable state of disrepair," Davidson, now 78, told The Moment.
Toronto and other Canadian cities have allowed the homeless and affordable-housing situation to decline into a deplorable state.
Unicef, the United Nations Children's Fund, said the sewage system in the city was in a "deplorable state".
LTL was established in 1990, following a "chunky piece of research" that found school grounds to be in a "deplorable" state.
People were disposing of waste in their backyards, burying or burning it, and the city was in a deplorable state," she says.
British and American soldiers ransacked the campus again and again during the Revolution, and it remained in a "deplorable state" through the 1790s, the historian Sean Wilentz writes in the catalog.
It's a pretty deplorable state of affairs when they put people like him in jail - it would be obscene to sentence him to 10 years.
This tale began as a satire on the deplorable state of corruption in the College of Cardinals; things were so bad, even a woman could be elected Pope.
For example: if your project is about reigniting a local, nonprofit arts organization, it might be tempting to go off into a discussion of the deplorable state of arts funding, but it won't really help detail how your project is coming along.
That alarm has since turned to something more akin to panic, after a rapid succession of airline emergencies in just a few days underlined the deplorable state of the national fleet reportedly the most obsolete in the entire region.In all, there were 33 aviation "incidents" during September, and independent sources say the rate is up by a tenth this year so far, compared with 2010.
Instead, it came from the 1976 movie, Network, and it was uttered by noted actor Peter Finch, a news anchor lamenting the deplorable state of his industry at the time.
