REPREHENSIBLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does reprehensible mean? • REPREHENSIBLE (adjective)
The adjective REPREHENSIBLE has 1 sense:
1. bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
Familiarity information: REPREHENSIBLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• REPREHENSIBLE (adjective)
Meaning:
Bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
Synonyms:
condemnable; criminal; reprehensible; deplorable; vicious
Context examples:
a criminal waste of talent / a deplorable act of violence / adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife
Similar:
wrong (contrary to conscience or morality or law)
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