Somehow a lie seems so much less reprehensible when one can call it a lee.

Is stealing stolen property less reprehensible than plain stealing?

Her "Rapist" ad is no less reprehensible, and plays clearly off racial fears.

The protagonist is less reprehensible at the beginning and comes closer to redemption at the close.

To facilitate their capture was no less reprehensible.

It's certainly a lot less reprehensible than robbing bank customers, writes Kieran Fagan We have become sex mad.

But although wanting in animation, it was far less reprehensible than that which preceded or that which followed it.

I am unwilling, however, to leave him in total disgrace, and will therefore quote from another preface a passage less reprehensible.

To pay a debt by means of a worthless cheque was evidently less reprehensible than to pilfer a brooch from a dressing-table.

Of course, I did have some motives which were less reprehensible than that, though I'm not sure they were very much less calculating.

(2) No less reprehensible, though somewhat less important, is the toadying of the newspapers to their advertisers.