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reprehensible

adjective

bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure

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Word Facts

Word length
13
Starts with
R
Ends with
E
Contains
EP
Scrabble score
20
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

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Definitions

adjective

  1. bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure

    “a criminal waste of talent”

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Example Sentences

a criminal waste of talent
a deplorable act of violence
adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife

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