reprehend
verb (used with object)
to reprove or find fault with; rebuke; censure; blame.
reprehended
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past participleof reprehend.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof reprehend.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
reprehendverb (used with object)to reprove or find fault with; rebuke; censure; blame.
Example Sentences
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Ernesto, 91, was famously reprehended in public by Pope John Paul during a visit to Nicaragua in the 1980s.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2016
Yet that is what a crowd did at St. Louis last week and, curiously enough, its indecorum was too inevitable to be reprehended.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just now our fashionable women are bitterly reprehended for copying the dress of the "Anonymas," who establish the very pronounced fashions of Paris.
From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Lucia Gilbert Calhoun
It did not offer itself on any single occasion to his intelligence to think that there was anything to be reprehended in this sterile dalliance.
From Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray
Lie to me, and welcome; but beware lest your own heart take you to task for it, reminding you that both anger and falsehood are reprehended by all religions, yours included.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
