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reprehensible
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See also: répréhensible and repréhensible
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin reprehensibilis, from Latin reprehendo; equivalent to reprehend + -ible.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɹɛpɹɪˈhɛnsɪb(ə)l/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɹɛpɹəˈhɛnsəb(ə)l/
Adjective
reprehensible (comparative more reprehensible, superlative most reprehensible)
- Blameworthy, censurable, guilty.
- Deserving of reprehension.
- 1998, Greg Morrow, Dylan Verheul, “Sandman 14”, in The Sandman Annotations, archived from the original on 25 July 2008:
- Scarlett O’Hara was the heroine of the novel/movie Gone with the Wind and the reprehensible sequel Scarlett.
- 2019, Gary Younge, “Shamima Begum has a right to British citizenship, whether you like it or not”, in Guardian.:
- We, as a society, should in some way be held accountable for how a 15-year-old girl went from watching Keeping Up With the Kardashians to joining a terrorist cult in a war zone. Begum was 15 when she did a reprehensible thing; Javid is 49. What’s his excuse?
- 2022 August 24, Bruce Healey, “Wartime tunnel crash: a miraculous escape”, in RAIL, number 964, page 52:
- At the inquest, the conduct of guard Austin was described as reprehensible.
Synonyms
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Translations
blameworthy
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deserving of reprehension
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Noun
reprehensible (plural reprehensibles)
- A reprehensible person; a villain.
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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin reprehēnsibilis, from Latin reprehendō.
Pronunciation
Adjective
reprehensible m or f (masculine and feminine plural reprehensibles)
- reprehensible
- Synonym: reprensible
Related terms
Further reading
- “reprehensible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
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