reprehension
noun
the act of reprehending; reproof; censure.
reprehensive
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a word derived from
reprehension.
Example Sentences
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But the fact remains that office brokerage is here held in reprehensive scorn and professional office-seeking in contempt.
From Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed. A Collection of Speeches and Messages by Calvin Coolidge
There are, indeed, mannerists enough; and we mean not here to use the word in its reprehensive sense but they stand more alone.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various
The trite saying that "nothing succeeds like success" should be supplemented by adding, "and nothing more reprehensive than failure."
From Troublous Times in Canada A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870 by John A. (John Alexander) MacDonald
Yet do I give you my sincere thanks for every line of your reprehensive letters; which I intend to read as often as I find my temper rises.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson
As o'er our penny roll we sing, It is not reprehensive To think what joys our wealth would bring Were we disposed to do the thing Upon a scale extensive.
From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
