Sample sentences for REPREHENSIBLE

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Definition

bad — deserving severe criticism

reprehensible = bad — deserving criticism

reprehensible = bad

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

reprehensible = bad

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

reprehensible = very bad (deserving severe criticism)

By rather reprehensible methods, milady.
Agatha Christie -- Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot

reprehensible = bad

But back to the subject at hand—this absolutely reprehensible report card!
Sharon M. Draper -- Tears of a Tiger

reprehensible = bad and unacceptable

Her behaviour would not be so reprehensible if she were a widow, she goes on.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace

reprehensible = bad and unacceptable

I saw nothing reprehensible in what Mr Elliot was doing.
Jane Austen -- Persuasion

reprehensible = bad or unacceptable

reprehensible = unacceptable (deserving severe criticism)

A habit reprehensible at puberty is second nature and...
James Joyce -- Ulysses

reprehensible = bad and deserving severe criticism

This amiable, upright, perfect Jane Fairfax was apparently cherishing very reprehensible feelings.
Jane Austen -- Emma

reprehensible = bad (worthy of criticism)

Fairly or unfairly, to her derogators Pittman epitomized all that was reprehensible about Dick Bass's Popularization of the Seven Summits
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air

reprehensible = bad and unacceptable

Jo ... shook her fist at the reprehensible John.
Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women

reprehensible = bad

Though indeed I fail to comprehend how ... announcing your infidelity to your husband and seeing nothing reprehensible in it,
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina

reprehensible = deserving criticism

Many young men, not necessarily through any reprehensible fault, are dropped during recruit training.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers

reprehensible = 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...
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men

reprehensible = bad and unacceptable

Was it really so reprehensible that he was afraid of his fourteen-year-old daughter's coming home pregnant?
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being

reprehensible = bad and unacceptable

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