reprehensible adj : bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife" [syn: condemnable, criminal, deplorable]

English

Etymology

reprehend + -ible

Adjective

1. Blameworthy, censurable, guilty.
2. Deserving of reprehension.
   • 1998, Greg Morrow and Dylan Verheul, The Sandman Annotations, Sandman 14

     Scarlett O’Hara was the heroine of the novel/movie Gone with the Wind and the reprehensible sequel Scarlett''.

Related terms

• reprehensibility
• reprehend
• irreprehensible
• reprehension

Translations

abominable, accusable, amiss, arraignable, arrant, at fault, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, beneath contempt, black, blamable, blameful, blameworthy, brutal, censurable, chargeable, contemptible, criminal, culpable, damnable, dark, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, disgraceful, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, evil, execrable, faulty, fetid, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, foul, fulsome, grievous, gross, guilty, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, impeachable, implicated, improper, imputable, inculpated, indictable, infamous, iniquitous, involved, knavish, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, low, monstrous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, open to criticism, outrageous, peccant, pitiable, pitiful, rank, regrettable, reproachable, reprobate, reprovable, repulsive, rotten, sad, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sinful, sordid, squalid, terrible, to blame, too bad, unclean, unforgivable, unholy, unpardonable, unspeakable, unworthy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong