reprehensible
- deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.
Origin of reprehensible
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objectionable, sinful, culpable, disgraceful, amiss, blamable, blameworthy, censurable, delinquent, errant, erring, guilty, ignoble, opprobrious, remiss, unholy, unworthy, wicked, condemnable, discreditableExamples from the Web for reprehensible
Contemporary Examples of reprehensible
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 ClassicKevin Fallon
November 19, 2014
The latest documents make the four days of closings seem all the more reckless and reprehensible.
But 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".
She uncovers a reprehensible example of cronyism, elitism, and vote finagling which reflects some Israeli Leftist shortcomings.
Historical Examples of reprehensible
A demon addicted to the reprehensible habit of devouring the dead.
The Devil's DictionaryAmbrose Bierce
Worse than all was the reprehensible conduct of Sir Theophilus Parker.
Audrey CravenMay Sinclair
Does your law, then, not consider him reprehensible in that desire?
Another SheafJohn Galsworthy
Reprehensible as it was he did not want anything to disturb it.
The RescueJoseph Conrad
He has adopted a tone and manners which I can hardly but describe as reprehensible.
The NabobAlphonse Daudet
reprehensible
- open to criticism or rebuke; blameworthy
Word Origin for reprehensible
Word Origin and History for reprehensible
late 14c., from Old French reprehensible (14c.) or directly from Late Latin reprehensibilis, from reprehens-, past participle stem of Latin reprehendere (see reprehend). Related: Reprehensibly; reprehensibility.