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Reprehensible   /rˌɛprɪhˈɛnsəbəl/   Listen
Reprehensible

adjective
1.
Bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure.  Synonyms: condemnable, criminal, deplorable, vicious.  "A deplorable act of violence" , "Adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife"






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"Reprehensible" Quotes from Famous Books



... reflection upon parent, teacher, and physician, because it is through ignorance of the elementary principles of sex hygiene that this condition continues to exist. If they were warned against the possibility of self-abuse arising in innocent ways, as well as in more reprehensible ways, they would exert their influence against its acquirement. If however a boy discovers accidentally a condition of which he was innocent, and of which he does not know the significance, it is human ...
— The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • W. Grant Hague

... would seem that unbelief is not the greatest of sins. For Augustine says (De Bapt. contra Donat. iv, 20): "I should hesitate to decide whether a very wicked Catholic ought to be preferred to a heretic, in whose life one finds nothing reprehensible beyond the fact that he is a heretic." But a heretic is an unbeliever. Therefore we ought not to say absolutely that unbelief is ...
— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas

... allow you to ask any further questions," interrupted Miss Winstead. She was so nervous and perplexed at the task before her that she was glad even to be able to find fault with the child. It was really reprehensible of any child to take an interest in ...
— Daddy's Girl • L. T. Meade

... raised her hand to give a single blow to any servant-girl, she, however, when she accidentally discovered Chin Ch'uan-erh behave on this occasion in this barefaced manner, a manner which had all her lifetime been most reprehensible to her, was so overcome by passion that she gave Chin Ch'uan-erh just one slap and spoke to her a few sharp words. And albeit Chin Ch'uan-erh indulged in solicitous entreaties, she would not on any ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin

... would have come IMMEJOUSLY," said Hannah, displaying a most reprehensible ignorance, "but me hands were all ...
— Paul Prescott's Charge • Horatio Alger


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