Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of the nature of reprehension; containing reprehension or reproof.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Containing reprehension; conveying reproof.

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  • adjective Containing reprehension or reproof.

Etymologies

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Compare French répréhensif.

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Examples

  • To spend $4 million dollars and to come from a corporate reprehensive (considering corporations have a reputation for luxury, greed and waste as highlighted by our current economic and healthcare crisis) is utterly absurd.

    Conservative group targets Obama's vacation 2009

  • I have enough personal experience with Planned Parenthood to know firsthand that they were engaging in the same morally reprehensive and illegal behavior over 20 years ago that they are engaging in today.

    Crazy? Ig’nint? | My[confined]Space 2009

  • Her dishonest, disrespectful and reprehensive political tactics would be of little value to Barack Obama.

    Rendell: 'Very unlikely' Clinton will win 2008

  • Clinton's current strategy is to bring Obama down enough to push Edwards evens or past him even if it costs her a bit in the polls too, which is why we are seeing the recent reprehensive tactics from her (I am assuming they are not so incompetent or out of touch as to have done it all accidentally.)

    Poll: Two Dead Heats In New Hampshire ��� And Obama And McCain Rising 2009

  • I encourage fans who live in Toronto to find their reprehensive and send them a brief, respectful note in support of converting BMO to grass.

    All we are saying...is give us some grass! Duane Rollins 2009

  • Lawmakers say Sanford's reprehensive actions brought ridicule, disgrace and shame to South Carolina.

    CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2009 2009

  • As a parent I would not even let my teens play There simply because I find it reprehensive that young kids are so eager to purchase goods that they find a way to get them... basically through virtual prostitution.

    Thoughts on Virtual Laguna Beach 2006

  • As a parent I would not even let my teens play There simply because I find it reprehensive that young kids are so eager to purchase goods that they find a way to get them... basically through virtual prostitution.

    Thoughts on Virtual Laguna Beach 2006

  • Yet do I give you my sincere thanks for every line of your reprehensive letters; which I intend to read as often as I find my temper rises.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Emily, somewhat embarrassed by the indignation, which this malevolent allusion to her father excited, and by the difficulty of rendering her answer as temperate as it should be reprehensive, hesitated for some moments, in a confusion, which highly gratified her aunt.

    The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

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