REPREHENSIBLE


Meaning of REPREHENSIBLE in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

morally

Sweetman splits his subject in half into Gauguin, a morally reprehensible man, and Gauguin, a heroic artist.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

I find their behavior morally reprehensible .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But they do suggest that public funds were used for private purposes in a reprehensible way.

His crackdown on asylum seekers and his humiliating voucher system are reprehensible .

In Los dos amigos the parents feelings are proved reprehensible and unjust and the virtuous characters' attitudes praiseworthy.

Is the decline, where documented, reprehensible ?

It was highly reprehensible for a young girl who had not been properly initiated into the status of motherhood to become pregnant.

Keeping remand prisoners in police stations is another matter and is reprehensible .

Sweetman splits his subject in half into Gauguin, a morally reprehensible man, and Gauguin, a heroic artist.

Yet in both passages the complaints are clearly meant to be regarded as reprehensible .

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