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Meanings of reprehensible in English

Bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure.

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Usage of reprehensible in English
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They felt the use of torture as an advertising ploy was reprehensible.
The Irish Times
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Quotes of the week The behaviour is just egregious and reprehensible .
The Irish Times
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The most reprehensible motives and the most shocking thoughtlessness pervade them throughout.
The Christian Home / As it is in the Sphere of Nature and the Ch...
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Surely there is no crime more reprehensible than the murder of children.
News.com.au
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He was ready to admit that it was very reprehensible of him.
Chance: A Tale in Two Parts
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Where someone could maybe recognize it as morally reprehensible but artistically viable?
Ebony
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The Byron memoirs were burned by his executors; Gekoski finds this reprehensible.
The Irish Times
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But the actions of the organisers, bankrollers and participating acts are reprehensible.
The Irish Times
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Nay, she considered it a reprehensible impropriety that he still sought her.
Barbara Blomberg — Volume 04
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Bush and Trump's unflinching refusal to apologize for this racist-baiting is reprehensible.
Ebony
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She was under the delusion that lovers' love was a reprehensible egoism.
Sandra Belloni (originally Emilia in England) — Complete
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Gown was considered rather reprehensible, as it savoured of old ladies' bed-gowns.
A Little Girl of Long Ago; Or, Hannah Ann / A Sequel to a Little...
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Forgive me, sir, these thoughts, which must seem very reprehensible to you.
Recollections of My Youth
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Was there anything reprehensible, if you please, in an act of remembrance?
The Fallen Leaves
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What he had done-he , afifty-five-year-oldlawyer-wasreprehensible, indefensible by any standard.
The girl who played with fire
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The failure of the BCA to speak out about this is reprehensible.
The Guardian
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Ireland
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
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