How to Use reprehensible in a Sentence

reprehensible

adjective
  • This is reprehensible and his own party needs to tell him enough is enough.
    Phillip M. Bailey, The Courier-Journal, 14 Apr. 2018
  • What is so reprehensible about trying to find a ring a woman likes?
    Dara Mathis, The Root, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Not that rich people ought to be seen as reprehensible.
    Olivia Jaras, Forbes, 22 June 2021
  • Lawns were ecologically reprehensible and we were supposed to wipe them from the face of the earth.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 17 July 2021
  • What’s reprehensible to me is Teresa acts this way and everyone has to bow to her whims to stay on the show.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 9 May 2022
  • But the people who cheered his reprehensible actions sure do.
    Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 28 June 2018
  • Nothing is more important and we will not be deterred by the reprehensible actions of those who seek to spread hate.
    Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 22 June 2020
  • But art is only truthful when artists speak their truth, whether or not that truth is reprehensible to some.
    Lisa Fogarty, Good Housekeeping, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Surely there is no crime more reprehensible than the murder of children.
    Associated Press, Billboard, 23 May 2017
  • Worse, the abduction is kind of reprehensible, or the sight of dozens of terrified children is.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2022
  • To handle his dismissal in that way was reprehensible, in my opinion.
    Mattathias Schwartz, The Intercept, 11 May 2017
  • This was a reprehensible attempt by someone to box in the President.
    Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 2 July 2019
  • How do some of our reprehensible thoughts or disturbing ones seemingly come out of nowhere?
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 27 Aug. 2022
  • Just reprehensible, which makes the casting of this film so important.
    Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 20 Feb. 2021
  • Many of the mishaps were pre-snap fouls, which coach Kliff Kingsbury said was reprehensible.
    Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 28 July 2021
  • The white slave catchers are so reprehensible that Jeremiah knows the baby is better off being left in the forest.
    Steffan Triplett, Vulture, 15 May 2021
  • Dangling such harsh charges over a child’s head, even to extract a plea deal, is reprehensible and should not be lawful.
    Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • These hearings are a way for figures with views many of us would find reprehensible to attempt to mask them from public scrutiny.
    Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 10 Jan. 2017
  • The violence is reprehensible and dishonors the good people fighting for a just cause.
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2020
  • There is plenty to find reprehensible about such analyses.
    Sally Pipes, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Speaking of the arena dance floor, this is the usual place in our season-long reportage to single out the reprehensible surface.
    al, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The reprehensible conduct of the involved student was not known by the victim or the University until that time.
    Essence.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The idea that Charlottesville would hire attorneys to take away those rights is reprehensible.
    Del Quentin Wilber, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2017
  • This reprehensible scavenging among the scavengables was like taking the tusks from an elephant.
    Leah Garchik, SFChronicle.com, 13 Dec. 2020
  • Banning the speech of reprehensible figures can result in filling their coffers.
    Mari Uyehara, GQ, 8 May 2018
  • What Trump did, though reprehensible, bears no relation to what the statute covers.
    The Editors, National Review, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The idea of that much vulnerability and suffering in our midst seems reprehensible in a city as diverse and intimate as ours.
    Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Even so, can a group like this really be vigilante empowerment on one side of the coin and reprehensible incel horror on the other?
    Jamie Kahn, Glamour, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Four of the models are made out of concrete, four are made out of alternate materials, and all eight are morally reprehensible.
    Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Some have coped in reprehensible, idiotic and scary ways.
    Hau Chu, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2022

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