Word of the week: "deplorable"

Source: "Billboard, new law, highlight racial turn for abortion debate" by Zachary Roth, 30 March 2011.

Sentence(s): "The Chicago Abortion Fund, a pro-choice group, denounced the billboard. "The ongoing anti-choice movement to target women of color in cities across the country is both despicable and deplorable," it said in a statement."

Definition: —adjective 1. causing or being a subject for grief or regret; lamentable. 2. causing or being a subject for censure, reproach, or disapproval; wretched; very bad.

Roth's article is about a controversial billboard in the Englewood, Chicago. Being that Englewood is a prodominently black neighborhood, the community's response to the anti-abortion billboard on display is not so welcoming since it targets the African-American community, "shame[s] black women" (Roth), and is cynical and misleading by having a picture of President Obama on it. In this article, "deplorabe" is obviously used to describe something that is "causing or being a subject for censure, reproach, or disapproval; wretched; very bad" ("deplorable").