REPREHENSIBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reprehensible mean? 

• REPREHENSIBLE (adjective)
  The adjective REPREHENSIBLE has 1 sense:

1. bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure

  Familiarity information: REPREHENSIBLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPREHENSIBLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure

Synonyms:

condemnable; criminal; deplorable; reprehensible; vicious

Context example:

adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife

Similar:

wrong (contrary to conscience or morality or law)

Derivation:

reprehend (express strong disapproval of)

reprehensibility (being reprehensible; worthy of and deserving reprehension or reproof)

 Context examples 

She could only imagine, however, at last that she drew his notice because there was something more wrong and reprehensible, according to his ideas of right, than in any other person present.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Jo leaned her chin on her knees in a disconsolate attitude and shook her fist at the reprehensible John.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This amiable, upright, perfect Jane Fairfax was apparently cherishing very reprehensible feelings.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I think differently now; time and sickness and sorrow have given me other notions; but at that period I must own I saw nothing reprehensible in what Mr Elliot was doing.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

They gave as another reason for their defeat the extraordinary state of drouth to which they had been reduced by the dusty nature of their occupation and the reprehensible distance from the scene of their labours of any place of public entertainment.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The inertia is indeed reprehensible.

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He pulled her hair whenever she came near him, upset his bread and milk to plague her when she had newly cleaned his cage, made Mop bark by pecking at him while Madam dozed, called her names before company, and behaved in all respects like an reprehensible old bird.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

My object has been to secure an amiable companion for myself, with due consideration for the advantage of all your family, and if my manner has been at all reprehensible, I here beg leave to apologise.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Laurie resigned her to the 'nice little boy', and went to do his duty to Flo, without securing Amy for the joys to come, which reprehensible want of forethought was properly punished, for she immediately engaged herself till supper, meaning to relent if he then gave any signs penitence.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She had always seen it with pain; but respecting his abilities, and grateful for his affectionate treatment of herself, she endeavoured to forget what she could not overlook, and to banish from her thoughts that continual breach of conjugal obligation and decorum which, in exposing his wife to the contempt of her own children, was so highly reprehensible.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)