Sample Sentences for
reprehensible
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    Her behaviour would not be so reprehensible if she were a widow, she goes on.  (source)
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    Fairly or unfairly, to her derogators Pittman epitomized all that was reprehensible about Dick Bass's Popularization of the Seven Summits  (source)
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    When Candy spoke they both jumped as though they had been caught doing something reprehensible.  (source)
    reprehensible = bad
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    Jo ... shook her fist at the reprehensible John.  (source)
    reprehensible = bad
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    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
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    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)
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    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
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    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
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    ...and the reprehensible distance from the scene of their labors of any place of public entertainment.  (source)
    reprehensible = bad -- deserving criticism
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    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)
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    Was it really so reprehensible that he was afraid of his fourteen-year-old daughter's coming home pregnant?  (source)
    reprehensible = bad and unacceptable
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    Your behaviour is reprehensible.  (source)
    reprehensible = unacceptable (deserving severe criticism)
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    The deep black grooves isolating his square chin from his jowls were bent again in a kind of jeering and reprehensible mirth.  (source)
    reprehensible = very bad (deserving severe criticism)
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