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reprehensible | American Dictionary

reprehensible
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˌrep·rɪˈhen·sə·bəl/
deserving blame; recognized as bad:
His conduct, though morally reprehensible, is not a crime.

Examples of reprehensible

reprehensible
This is why the opponents of the ' linguistic equality theory ' are not only wrong, but reprehensible.
He did not have to make all of his upper-class men reprehensible, though his prominent villains are from the upper ranks.
Sometimes we will be inclined to judge a framework of meaning as trivial, poor, or even reprehensible.
It is reprehensible that, in a country which boasts a long and healthy choral tradition, there is still no commercial recording.
Looked at thus, a cliche no longer seems so reprehensible, but becomes a useful identification symbol.
As for violence, it was not reprehensible from the point of view of political morality.
However, it should not be forgotten that obliging elders to live in sub-standard nursing homes represents an equally reprehensible form of social exclusion.
Disregarding her wishes the modern judiciary sees a runaway woman as transgressing traditional norms and morally reprehensible.
Domestic violence is increasingly coming to be viewed as totally reprehensible.
We feel there is nothing reprehensible about such a mixture and that tolerating it is by no means necessarily a bad thing.
No theory or methodology is "reprehensible," as far as any researcher who believes in the 'scientific method' is concerned.
Group-based antipathy is largely neutralized when an act of political expression is viewed by most people to be highly reprehensible.
These things were rejected not really because they were wrong or reprehensible, but because they had not in fact proved very enlightening.
Defensible social values, in turn, are those that can be adequately justified by ethical theory; appropriately weighted values and interests are reasonable and not reprehensible.
In this discourse altruism and selfishness are incompatible, and generally selfishness is morally reprehensible.
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