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
And he did so sometimes as well there, as in other places, when he thought that his men were careless, and reprehended such as were slack.
From A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 by A Gentleman of Elvas [pseud.]
He himself indulged overmuch in alliteration, but it was with humorous intent; and critics forgave it in him when they would have reprehended it in another.
From The Bibliotaph and Other People by Leon H. (Leon Henry) Vincent
Therefore a man should contract neither a high connection by which he is obliged to bow down afterwards to his kinsmen, nor a low connection, which is universally reprehended by all.
From The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Sir Richard Francis Burton
