reprehensible

Preposition: in

extreme: On the grounds of freedom of expression, I find such an attitude reprehensible in the extreme.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

find: However, I was obliged to be prudent so that those persons who spied into my actions might find nothing reprehensible.

Modifies a noun

• act: To hunt, to chase, and to kill animals for sport will now be a crime as well as a morally reprehensible act.
• behavior: This conduct was neither a crime nor, the Court of Appeal held, reprehensible behavior.
• conduct: Indemnity costs are not confined to cases of improper or reprehensible conduct.
• practice: First, computer snooping, or spying on computer users, is a reprehensible practice that invades our privacy.
• manner: I find it very hard to believe that a nurse would behave in such a reprehensible manner.
• character: Sanderson steals every single scene with his portrayal as one of the most reprehensible characters in motion picture history.

Modifying Another Word

• morally: To the Samurai, the Ninja really were morally reprehensible.
• utterly: Wandsworth was not a violent place but it was one where the staff culture was utterly reprehensible.
• particularly: This was particularly reprehensible in view of the burden of proof, which lay on the Respondents.
• so: The antics of the committee were so reprehensible, that all witnessing them, from all sides of the argument, were genuinely shocked.
• not: To help other workers who are in struggle to defend or improve their conditions is not reprehensible.
• absolutely: I think, frankly, a lot of the stories that went on were absolutely reprehensible.

Used with adjective complement

• consider: Various peoples have gotten used to practices which we would consider reprehensible.
• find: Then Uthman ruled and did things that the people found reprehensible, so that they came to him and killed him.
• seem: Yet it seems reprehensible, particularly for Americans, to declare hopelessness on behalf of people dying of a treatable disease.