reprehensible
deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.
Origin of reprehensible
1Other words for reprehensible
Opposites for reprehensible
Other words from reprehensible
- rep·re·hen·si·bil·i·ty, rep·re·hen·si·ble·ness, noun
- rep·re·hen·si·bly, adverb
- non·rep·re·hen·si·bil·i·ty, noun
- non·rep·re·hen·si·ble, adjective
- non·rep·re·hen·si·ble·ness, noun
- non·rep·re·hen·si·bly, adverb
- un·rep·re·hen·si·ble, adjective
- un·rep·re·hen·si·ble·ness, noun
- un·rep·re·hen·si·bly, adverb
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How to use reprehensible in a sentence
The intentional decision of policymakers to prioritize the wellbeing of a previable fetus with a beating heart over the wellbeing of the pregnant person is not just medically incorrect, it is socially reprehensible with dire consequences.
Fourth, let’s get to why the connection to Brown is so morally reprehensible.
Don’t Use Racial Equality to Justify Stripping Women of Their Right to Choose | Vangela M. Wade | May 17, 2022 | TimeThe new Bluebook citation rule shines a light on this practice, forcing lawyers in search of precedent to find some not entangled with the reprehensible human trafficking that has riven the Western Hemisphere since 1619.
Fighting racial bias with an unlikely weapon: Footnotes | Justin Wm. Moyer | January 18, 2022 | Washington PostHis behavior is reprehensible, but his charisma is undeniable.
Red Rocket Is a Spiky Comedy With a Fascinating, Magnetic Performance by Simon Rex | Stephanie Zacharek | December 10, 2021 | TimeThe society may now remove someone from a bird’s name if they played a role in “reprehensible events.”
Racism lurks in many plant and animal names. That’s now changing. | Jaime Chambers | October 22, 2021 | Science News For Students
What an alternately messed up, irresistibly catchy, reprehensible, utterly charming holiday classic.
The Most WTF Covers of ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside,’ Everyone’s Favorite Date-Rape Holiday Classic | Kevin Fallon | November 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNone of this makes what Incognito and the Dolphins did any less reprehensible.
Richie Incognito and the NFL's Nasty Warrior Culture | Robert Silverman | February 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe latest documents make the four days of closings seem all the more reckless and reprehensible.
In New Documents, the Bridgegate Cover Story Unravels | Michael Daly | January 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut he described the “very personal insults” directed at the two air hostesses and pilot “as nothing short of reprehensible.”
Then again, some of them doubtless think it reprehensible that he speak at a memorial service for an old "communist".
Raúl Castro Honors Mandela, but Ignores His Message | Alex Massie | December 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHis life and conduct subsequently was extremely imprudent and reprehensible.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel Munsell"Yes; and it was a very reprehensible affair, I think," Mrs. Courtney answered stiffly.
They Looked and Loved | Mrs. Alex McVeigh MillerThis insolent conduct was specially reprehensible in the case of Grenville, who owed his advancement to Bute's recommendation.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. | William Hunt"That's only amateurish and besides reprehensible," said the Tennessee Shad.
The Varmint | Owen JohnsonPandora's raiment, I grieve to state, has slipped down about her waist in a manner exceedingly reprehensible.
The Fiend's Delight | Dod Grile
British Dictionary definitions for reprehensible
/ (ˌrɛprɪˈhɛnsəbəl) /
open to criticism or rebuke; blameworthy
Origin of reprehensible
1Derived forms of reprehensible
- reprehensibility or reprehensibleness, noun
- reprehensibly, adverb
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