reprehensible
[ rep-ri-hen-suh-buhl ]
adjective
deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.
Origin of reprehensible
1Other words for reprehensible
Opposites for reprehensible
Other words from reprehensible
- rep·re·hen·si·bil·i·ty, rep·re·hen·si·ble·ness, noun
- rep·re·hen·si·bly, adverb
- non·rep·re·hen·si·bil·i·ty, noun
- non·rep·re·hen·si·ble, adjective
- non·rep·re·hen·si·ble·ness, noun
- non·rep·re·hen·si·bly, adverb
- un·rep·re·hen·si·ble, adjective
- un·rep·re·hen·si·ble·ness, noun
- un·rep·re·hen·si·bly, adverb
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How to use reprehensible in a sentence
But the next day she set herself to satisfy her entirely unreprehensible curiosity concerning Colonel Lackaday.
The Mountebank | William J. Locke
British Dictionary definitions for reprehensible
reprehensible
/ (ˌrɛprɪˈhɛnsəbəl) /
adjective
open to criticism or rebuke; blameworthy
Origin of reprehensible
1C14: from Late Latin reprehensibilis, from Latin reprehendere to hold back, reprove; see reprehend
Derived forms of reprehensible
- reprehensibility or reprehensibleness, noun
- reprehensibly, adverb
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