reprehensible Definition
rep·re·hen·sible (-hen′sə bəl)
adjective
deserving to be reprehended
Etymology: ME reprehensyble < LL(Ec) reprehensibilis
reprehensible Related Forms
rep′·re·hen′·sibil′·ity noun
rep′·re·hen′·sibly adverb
reprehensible Synonyms
reprehensible Usage Examples
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.
Browse dictionary entries near reprehensible
- ‹ reprehend
- ‹ repr
- ‹ Repplier, Agnes
- ‹ repp
- ‹ repoussé
- ‹ repossess
- ‹ repository
- ‹ reposition
- ‹ reposit
- ‹ reposeful

