toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

reprehensible
in a sentence

show 66 more with this conextual meaning
  • a desperate and reprehensible luxury   (source)
    reprehensible = bad (deserving criticism)
  • ...it is most reprehensible that those responsible for this agreement should have been so lax in their protection of the public interest as to accept...   (source)
    reprehensible = bad and unacceptable
  • By rather reprehensible methods, milady.   (source)
    reprehensible = bad
  • we burst out in scorn at the reprehensible poverty of our sex.   (source)
    reprehensible = bad and unacceptable
  • ...and the reprehensible distance from the scene of their labors of any place of public entertainment.   (source)
    reprehensible = bad -- deserving criticism
  • She was as angry with herself as with Anne, because, whenever she recalled Mrs. Rachel's dumbfounded countenance her lips twitched with amusement and she felt a most reprehensible desire to laugh.   (source)
    reprehensible = bad
  • Though indeed I fail to comprehend how ... announcing your infidelity to your husband and seeing nothing reprehensible in it,   (source)
    reprehensible = deserving criticism
  • Jo ... shook her fist at the reprehensible John.   (source)
    reprehensible = bad
  • But all these foolish arguments of old Sag-Harbor only evinced his foolish pride of reason--a thing still more reprehensible in him, seeing that he had but little learning except what he had picked up from the sun and the sea.   (source)
    reprehensible = bad -- deserving criticism
  • ...they had for some time expected the earth to open and swallow the public up; but which desirable event had not yet occurred, in consequence of some reprehensible laxity in the arrangements of the Universe.   (source)
    reprehensible = bad and unacceptable
  • George, you've got a hard master—in fact, he is—well he conducts himself reprehensibly—I can't pretend to defend him.   (source)
    reprehensibly = in a bad and unacceptable manner
  • 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.   (source)
    reprehensible = bad and unacceptable
  • President Obama described the shooting as "reprehensible and disgusting and tragic."†   (source)
  • Collecting Winifred's explanations of what she meant had become a reprehensible hobby of mine.†   (source)
  • Reprehensible.†   (source)
  • That is, the most reprehensible affront should be resolved by a duel of the fewest paces, to ensure that one of the two men will not leave the field of honor alive.†   (source)
  • Bounders guilty of reprehensible behavior, eh?†   (source)
  • A careless act was as reprehensible as an act of intentional meanness or disobedience.†   (source)
  • What about "reprehensible conduct with girls"?†   (source)
  • So that feeling came again, even though I tried to keep it out: that we were doing all of this too late; that there'd once been a time for it, but we'd let that go by, and there was something ridiculous, reprehensible even, about the way we were now thinking and planning.†   (source)
  • But reprehensible DeSimon refused to do anything about it.†   (source)
  • "I'm not saying that his behavior wasn't reprehensible; it was.†   (source)
  • "It's a reprehensible idea!"†   (source)
  • You're using Shay to spotlight an issue you find reprehensible, in the hopes that you can change it.†   (source)
  • What he had done—he, a fifty-five-year-old lawyer—was reprehensible, indefensible by any standard.†   (source)
  • But then neither did he oppose them, and their passage and his signature on them were to be rightly judged by history as the most reprehensible acts of his presidency.†   (source)
  • Soviet ships have every right to enter Cuban waters and unload any cargo they like and that the American naval quarantine—a fancy way of saying "blockade," which is an act of war—is reprehensible.†   (source)
  • Embracing death is morally reprehensible.†   (source)
  • I could expell you for that reprehensible act alone.†   (source)
  • Only when spies do reprehensible things.†   (source)
  • To extend the slavery line of the Missouri Compromise into California and thus split the state, or to delay its admission by tying it to this Omnibus Bill, was reprehensible to Benton, the father-in-law of Colonel John Fremont, hero of California's exploration and development.†   (source)
  • For considering that he might have done some reprehensible thing, then he would need the gravest and tenderest handling.†   (source)
  • Her behaviour would not be so reprehensible if she were a widow, she goes on.   (source)
  • The past, the career, the personality of Howard Roark seem to support the widespread impression that he is a reprehensible character, a dangerous, unprincipled, antisocial type of man…   (source)
    reprehensible = bad
  • This amiable, upright, perfect Jane Fairfax was apparently cherishing very reprehensible feelings.   (source)
    reprehensible = bad (worthy of criticism)
  • I saw nothing reprehensible in what Mr Elliot was doing.   (source)
    reprehensible = bad or unacceptable
  • And Pierre, anxiously trying to remember whether he had done anything reprehensible, looked round with a blush.   (source)
    reprehensible = bad and unacceptable
  • But what you're suggesting is morally reprehensible!" the premier said.†   (source)
  • The three teammates seemed unconcerned by the reports of Ian's reprehensible behavior and rumors redicting their expedition's imminent disintegration.†   (source)
  • —FOR THEIR ALLEGED 'OVERT INDISCRETIONS'; I BELIEVE THE TWO INCIDENTS FALL UNDER THE PUNISHABLE OFFENSE OF 'MORALLY REPREHENSIBLE CONDUCT WITH GIRLS.'†   (source)
  • In a letter to Oliver Wolcott that he most likely never sent, Adams said angrily that were he to consent to the appointment of Hamilton to second rank under Washington, he would consider it the most reprehensible action of his life.†   (source)
  • A mass meeting at Carnegie Hall condemned Norris and hiscolleagues as "treasonable and reprehensible" men "who refused to defend the Stars and Stripes on the high seas"; and the crowd hooted "traitor" and "hang him" whenever the names of Norris, La Follette and their supporters were mentioned.†   (source)
  • It is, if you permit the observation, most reprehensible laxity on your part.†   (source)
  • As on a previous occasion, Settembrini found this reprehensible; he at once proved to be very well informed about major current events—and approved of what was happening, since things were taking a course favorable to civilization.†   (source)
  • They interrupted the formal business-meeting to discuss Mrs. Edgar Potbury's husband, Mrs. Potbury's income, Mrs. Potbury's sedan, Mrs. Potbury's residence, Mrs. Potbury's oratorical style, Mrs. Potbury's mandarin evening coat, Mrs. Potbury's coiffure, and Mrs. Potbury's altogether reprehensible influence on the State Federation of Women's Clubs.†   (source)
  • But I would be inclined to stand at his side in the imaginary scene you have just painted with such reprehensible relish.†   (source)
  • We have often declared that we do not wish to make him any better or any worse than he was, and so we do not want to hide the fact that he frequently took countermeasures to try to atone for the reprehensible pleasure he found in mystic disturbances that he quite consciously and intentionally elicited himself.†   (source)
  • His adversary, Naphta responded, showed no lack of the same contradictions and consistencies; he thought of himself as a democrat, and yet expressed himself as something less than a friend of the common man and equality, indeed displayed a reprehensible aristocratic arrogance by describing the world's proletariat, who were called to provisional dictatorship, as a mob.†   (source)
  • Tom looked at his legs, but left it uncertain whether he preferred his moral advantages to a more vicious length of limb and reprehensible gentility of trouser.†   (source)
  • All the reprehensible actions of which a public functionary may be guilty are reducible to the following heads: [Footnote x: There is an indirect method of enforcing the obedience of a township.†   (source)
  • Chapter VII The Golden Gates Are Passed So Tom went on even to the fifth half-year—till he was turned sixteen—at King's Lorton, while Maggie was growing with a rapidity which her aunts considered highly reprehensible, at Miss Firniss's boarding-school in the ancient town of Laceham on the Floss, with cousin Lucy for her companion.†   (source)
  • 'I do know,' said the old gentleman, laying his finger on his nose, with an air of familiarity, most reprehensible, 'that this is a sacred and enchanted spot, where the most divine charms'—here he kissed his hand and bowed again—'waft mellifluousness over the neighbours' gardens, and force the fruit and vegetables into premature existence.†   (source)
  • When your peers, Mr. Land, destroy decent, harmless creatures like the southern right whale or the bowhead whale, they commit a reprehensible offense.†   (source)
  • "Though indeed I fail to comprehend how, with the independence you show," he went on, getting hot, "—announcing your infidelity to your husband and seeing nothing reprehensible in it, apparently—you can see anything reprehensible in performing a wife's duties in relation to your husband."†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • At first he saw nothing reprehensible in this, but in the second year of his marriage his view of that form of punishment suddenly changed.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • An outlaw had been very successful in doing something somewhere, and came home, in triumph, to the sound of shouts and fiddles, to greet his wife—a lady of masculine mind, who talked a good deal about her father's bones, which it seemed were unburied, though whether from a peculiar taste on the part of the old gentleman himself, or the reprehensible neglect of his relations, did not appear.†   (source)
  • Lady Chettam thought that such conduct was very reprehensible, and remembered that Mrs. Truberry's mother was a Miss Walsingham of Melspring.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Fred and Rosamond had little to say to each other now that marriage had removed her from collision with the unpleasantness of brothers, and especially now that he had taken what she held the stupid and even reprehensible step of giving up the Church to take to such a business as Mr. Garth's.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • "Your statement is incoherent, my good engineer," Settembrini said in reply, "yet its reprehensibility still shines through.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bulstrode asked, reprehensively, what the new police was doing; but a voice could not well be collared, and an attack on the effigy of the candidate would have been too equivocal, since Hawley probably meant it to be pelted.†   (source)
  • A habit reprehensible at puberty is second nature and...   (source)
    reprehensible = bad and deserving severe criticism
  • As less reprehensible than theft, highway robbery, cruelty to children and animals, obtaining money under false pretences, forgery, embezzlement, misappropriation of public money, betrayal of public trust, malingering, mayhem, corruption of minors, criminal libel, blackmail, contempt of court, arson, treason, felony, mutiny on the high seas, trespass, burglary, jailbreaking, practice of unnatural vice, desertion from armed forces in the field, perjury, poaching, usury, intelligence…†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)