Unfortunately, he got into the deplorable habit of strangling people to get corpses.

I opened the parlor door and went in, carefully closing it behind me, for Nancy has a deplorable habit of listening in the hall.

And his deplorable habit of being bold after the event, and full, in absence, of the most extraordinary presence of mind.

Even some of our girls have taken to this deplorable habit.

The New Republic said "the President is again reverting to his deplorable habit of choosing men for high post because they happen to be his friends...".

I have a most deplorable habit, at times, of not looking at the papers.

I know all about his deplorable habits, and have no doubt that news of this sort would send him into a fever.

"Deriving ethnic names from pottery styles is one of the most deplorable habits in archaeology," F. J. Tritsch asserted in 1974.

She'd been becoming fond of the old rogue; as if he were a wicked uncle with deplorable habits who was, nonetheless, part of the family.

Those with brains on the verge of exhaustion have a deplorable habit of walking in from the street and flumping straight down on the closest patch of unoccupied ground.