reprehensible

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See also: répréhensible and repréhensible

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin reprehensibilis, from Latin reprehendo; equivalent to reprehend +‎ -ible.

Adjective

reprehensible (comparative more reprehensible, superlative most reprehensible)

  1. Blameworthy, censurable, guilty.
  2. 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.

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Noun

reprehensible (plural reprehensibles)

  1. A reprehensible person; a villain.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin reprehēnsibilis, from Latin reprehendō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /repɾeenˈsible/
  • Rhymes: -ible
  • Syllabification: re‧pre‧hen‧si‧ble

Adjective

reprehensible m or f (masculine and feminine plural reprehensibles)

  1. reprehensible
    Synonym: reprensible

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