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reprehensible
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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)
  • Your behaviour is reprehensible.  (source)
    reprehensible = unacceptable (deserving severe criticism)
  • Her behaviour would not be so reprehensible if she were a widow, she goes on.  (source)
    reprehensible = bad and unacceptable
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  • "It may sound reprehensible to you now, but your desire for blood is as normal for your new life as your desire for"—she paused and smiled—"brown pop has been in your old life."  (source)
    reprehensible = bad (deserving severe criticism)
  • 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
  • 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)
  • "Your statement is incoherent, my good engineer," Settembrini said in reply, "yet its reprehensibility still shines through.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Was it really so reprehensible that he was afraid of his fourteen-year-old daughter's coming home pregnant?  (source)
    reprehensible = bad and unacceptable
  • They're all scrambling to get statements into the newspapers to the effect that they have no connection whatever with the John Galt Line and how reprehensible an undertaking they think it is.  (source)
  • Many young men, not necessarily through any reprehensible fault, are dropped during recruit training.  (source)
    reprehensible = deserving criticism
  • When Candy spoke they both jumped as though they had been caught doing something reprehensible.  (source)
    reprehensible = bad
  • we burst out in scorn at the reprehensible poverty of our sex.  (source)
    reprehensible = bad and unacceptable
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