Reprehensible Definition

rĕprĭ-hĕnsə-bəl
adjective
Deserving to be reprehended.
Webster's New World

Blameworthy, censurable, guilty.

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noun

A reprehensible person; a villain.

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Other Word Forms of Reprehensible

Noun

Singular:
reprehensible
Plural:
reprehensibles

Origin of Reprehensible

  • Middle English from Old French from Late Latin reprehēnsibilis from Latin reprehēnsus past participle of reprehendere to reprehend reprehend

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • reprehend +"Ž -ible

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Reprehensible Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • I find it very hard to believe that a nurse would behave in such a reprehensible manner.

  • To hunt, to chase, and to kill animals for sport will now be a crime as well as a morally reprehensible act.

  • 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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Words Starting With

RREREP

Words Ending With

ELEBLE

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Words Starting With R and Ending With E

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