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单词 reprehensible
释义
reprehensible
adjective
formal
uk
/ˌrep.rɪˈhen.sə.bəl/us
/ˌrep.rəˈhen.sə.bəl/
If someone'sbehaviouris reprehensible, it isextremelybadorunacceptable:
应受斥责的；应受指责的；不道德的
reprehensibleconduct/actions应受指责的行为／行动
Synonym
deplorableformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Bad and wrong behaviour
  • act out
  • angel
  • ASB
  • astray
  • atyourworstidiom
  • beup to no goodidiom
  • go off the railsidiom
  • go round
  • impossible
  • in flagrante
  • incorrigible
  • raise hellidiom
  • rakish
  • rakishly
  • rakishness
  • rascally
  • villainy
  • while the cat's away, the mice will playidiom
  • worst
  • wrongdoing
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Related word

reprehensibly
(Definition ofreprehensiblefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

reprehensible| American Dictionary

reprehensible
adjective[not gradable]
us
/ˌrep·rɪˈhen·sə·bəl/
deservingblame;recognizedasbad:
Hisconduct, thoughmorallyreprehensible, is not acrime.
(Definition ofreprehensiblefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofreprehensible

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This is why the opponents of the ' linguistic equality theory ' are not only wrong, butreprehensible.
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He did not have to make all of his upper-class menreprehensible, though his prominent villains are from the upper ranks.
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Sometimes we will be inclined to judge a framework of meaning as trivial, poor, or evenreprehensible.
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It isreprehensiblethat, in a country which boasts a long and healthy choral tradition, there is still no commercial recording.
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Looked at thus, a cliche no longer seems soreprehensible, but becomes a useful identification symbol.
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As for violence, it was notreprehensiblefrom the point of view of political morality.
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However, it should not be forgotten that obliging elders to live in sub-standard nursing homes represents an equallyreprehensibleform of social exclusion.
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Disregarding her wishes the modern judiciary sees a runaway woman as transgressing traditional norms and morallyreprehensible.
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Domestic violence is increasingly coming to be viewed as totallyreprehensible.
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We feel there is nothingreprehensibleabout such a mixture and that tolerating it is by no means necessarily a bad thing.
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No theory or methodology is "reprehensible," as far as any researcher who believes in the 'scientific method' is concerned.
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Group-based antipathy is largely neutralized when an act of political expression is viewed by most people to be highlyreprehensible.
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These things were rejected not really because they were wrong orreprehensible, but because they had not in fact proved very enlightening.
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Defensible social values, in turn, are those that can be adequately justified by ethical theory; appropriately weighted values and interests are reasonable and notreprehensible.
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In this discourse altruism and selfishness are incompatible, and generally selfishness is morallyreprehensible.
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