deserving to be reprehended
Origin of reprehensible
Middle English reprehensyble from Ecclesiastical Late Latin reprehensibilis
Littering is reprehensible, but fortunately there are many good people willing to volunteer their time to clean up the garbage.
The definition of reprehensible is deserving of blame or scolding.
An example of reprehensible is cheating on an exam.
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adjective
Deserving rebuke or censure: “Few legal codes were as reprehensible as the Jim Crow laws” ( Pete Bodo )
Origin of reprehensible
Middle English from Old French from Late Latin reprehēnsibilis from Latin reprehēnsus past participle of reprehendere to reprehend ; see reprehend .Related Forms:
- rep′re·hen′si·bil′i·ty rep′re·hen′si·ble·ness
noun
- rep′re·hen′si·bly
adverb
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Adjective
(comparative more reprehensible, superlative most reprehensible)
Origin
reprehend +"Ž -ible
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Sentence Examples
- A number of TV critics deemed the show "morally reprehensible," and the ratings were no picnic either.
- While her character could have been a caricature, Parisse played Julia Lindsay with delicious insanity and managed to engender sympathy even as her character committed reprehensible acts.
- I mention these reprehensible actions to illustrate how language can divide us.
- And Pierre, anxiously trying to remember whether he had done anything reprehensible, looked round with a blush.
- It is scarcely necessary to say that the indiscriminate addition of alcohol and water, or of either to must or to wine, must be regarded as a reprehensible operation.
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