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Definition
bad — deserving severe criticism- Cheating is reprehensible.
reprehensible = bad — deserving criticism
- His behavior was reprehensible and she decided not to see him again.
- Why should people be angry with a poor girl who had never done a single reprehensible thing in her whole life?Conrad, Joseph -- The Arrow of Gold
- she felt a most reprehensible desire to laugh.Montgomery, Lucy Maud -- Anne Of Green Gables
- This amiable, upright, perfect Jane Fairfax was apparently cherishing very reprehensible feelings.Austen, Jane -- Emma
- When Candy spoke they both jumped as though they had been caught doing something reprehensible.John Steinbeck -- Of Mice and Men
- The deep black grooves isolating his square chin from his jowls were bent again in a kind of jeering and reprehensible mirth.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- By rather reprehensible methods, milady.Agatha Christie -- Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot
- But back to the subject at hand—this absolutely reprehensible report card!Sharon M. Draper -- Tears of a Tiger
- Her behaviour would not be so reprehensible if she were a widow, she goes on.Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
- I saw nothing reprehensible in what Mr Elliot was doing.Jane Austen -- Persuasion
- For considering that he might have done some reprehensible thing, then he would need the gravest and tenderest handling.Eudora Welty -- The Golden Apples
- Your behaviour is reprehensible.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- A habit reprehensible at puberty is second nature and...James Joyce -- Ulysses
- This amiable, upright, perfect Jane Fairfax was apparently cherishing very reprehensible feelings.Jane Austen -- Emma
- Fairly or unfairly, to her derogators Pittman epitomized all that was reprehensible about Dick Bass's Popularization of the Seven SummitsJon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
- Jo ... shook her fist at the reprehensible John.Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
- Though indeed I fail to comprehend how ... announcing your infidelity to your husband and seeing nothing reprehensible in it,Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
- Many young men, not necessarily through any reprehensible fault, are dropped during recruit training.Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
- ...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...Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
reprehensible = bad
reprehensible = bad
reprehensible = very bad (deserving severe criticism)
reprehensible = bad
reprehensible = bad and unacceptable
reprehensible = bad and unacceptable
reprehensible = bad or unacceptable
reprehensible = bad and unacceptable
reprehensible = unacceptable (deserving severe criticism)
reprehensible = bad and deserving severe criticism
reprehensible = bad (worthy of criticism)
reprehensible = bad and unacceptable
reprehensible = bad
reprehensible = deserving criticism
reprehensible = deserving criticism
reprehensible = bad and unacceptable