reprehensible Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
    criminal; condemnable; deplorable; vicious.
    • a criminal waste of talent
    • a deplorable act of violence
    • adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife

WordNet


Rep`re*hen"si*ble adjective
Etymology
L. reprehensibilis: cf. F. répréhensible.
Definitions
  1. Worthy of reprehension; culpable; censurable; blamable. -- Rep`re*hen"si*ble*ness, n. -- Rep`re*hen"si*bly, adv.

Webster 1913