How To Use Reprehensible In A Sentence

And then there is the current reprehensible practice of offering only two minutes of news throughout the day, with five minutes condescendingly given at certain selected times.
But does that make him more reprehensible than anyone else who took drugs or peddled them? Times, Sunday Times
Without glossing over the more reprehensible elements in Sade's temperament, Rush succeeds in making him into a sympathetic character.
At the same time, they called the gaff reprehensible, but that's not all. CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2006
So what is to stop untrustworthy people in football from behaving in a similarly reprehensible manner and taking our game to the brink of no return? The Sun

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The missing apostrophe from area's you might put down to a typing error; the missing hyphens from well-maintained, 5th-floor, and ready-to-move-into you might ascribe to the pandemic mishandling of those simple punctuation marks; the misrelated clause at the beginning and the dubiously related clause at the end are not so easily shrugged off: they are the faults of pretension rather than ignorance, and the illiteracy of pretentiousness is the vulgarest and most reprehensible. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
Nothing in rural France is more reprehensible than a piece of cultivable ground left unattended.
Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Even his apparent obsession with my person might by some be considered not altogether reprehensible. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
There is no doubt that individual scientists have said things that are reprehensible and that they have been wrong but that in no way undermines the scientific enterprise.
How dishonourable and reprehensible, and I am very surprised that you would deal with such a person as this man is evolving to be.
It would be hypocritical for many politicians to say that it is morally reprehensible to take drugs when they themselves once smoked dope or took coke. Times, Sunday Times
Read my previous posts, the examples I cite as ethically or morally reprehensible business practices.
It is utter nonsense of course and completely reprehensible morally. Times, Sunday Times
Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief. Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is utter nonsense and completely reprehensible morally. Times, Sunday Times
We can agree that the ship owner's action in inducing the optimistic belief was morally highly reprehensible.
So what is to stop untrustworthy people in football from behaving in a similarly reprehensible manner and taking our game to the brink of no return? The Sun
A venial sin, in economic terms, is an expression of greed that's reprehensible enough to warrant punishment but not so serious that it significantly undercuts the country's long-term growth.
The man behind some of the most "reprehensible" - in the words of John McCain - GOP attack ads in recent memory is getting involved in Michigan's gubernatorial race. MichiganLiberal
Plagiarism is first and foremost a moral crime - it's about deception, and it's reprehensible because the plagiarist is passing off someone else's ideas or words as his own.
Foley "engaged in reprehensible conduct," Rep. Chris Chocola, R-Ind., said at a debate here Tuesday night after Joe Donnelly, his Democratic opponent, said in his opening remarks that people were "horrified" to learn about the Foley scandal. GOP forced off issues it wants to run on
The claim that one could direct one's intention away from what is otherwise a morally reprehensible action was consistent with the casuists 'defence of the doctrine of ˜probabilism™. Blaise Pascal
Reprehensible, too, were the succession of Cold War alliances with repressive but anti-Soviet regimes.
Equally troubling are the myths of geographical entitlement that undergird the reprehensible euphemism of ‘ethnic cleansing’.
It's a long way from either reprehensible or genius.
Franzen acknowledges the snobbery inherent in his comments, but argues that such elitism is ‘not the reprehensible attitude’ that people commonly believe it to be.
As you say, many of them denounce the document as the "Roadmap to hell," and Gary Bauer calls "any attempt to be 'evenhanded' ... 'morally reprehensible'. Mail Call
She now knew how reprehensible stealing the free will of others was, and she renounced her selfish ways.
That the tragedy and those at its center should be exploited for ratings and political gain is not just wrong - it's reprehensible.
It is well known that if you seize a deer by this "holt" the skin will slip off like the peel from a banana -- This reprehensible practice was carried so far that the traveler is now hourly pained by the sight of peeled-tail deer mournfully sneaking about the wood. In the Wilderness
But does that make him more reprehensible than anyone else who took drugs or peddled them? Times, Sunday Times
It is only since he left office that'the master' has seemed morally reprehensible and an embarrassment to the country. Times, Sunday Times
But his behavior toward his son is often reprehensible.
They are normally only awarded where the conduct can be described as reprehensible, scandalous or outrageous.
I had allowed my feelings about his often reprehensible behaviour to undermine my assessment of him in purely sporting terms. Times, Sunday Times
A team official said: 'It was a reprehensible act that had an adverse effect on the honour and morale of the national team. The Sun
While the Russians and Soviets did not appreciate all that they received - many of the films included warnings that they depicted a "moral and social situation" that was "reprehensible" - they were relatively good at making sure that what they had was kept in good condition in a state film archive. Silent films recovered: These new releases are oldest in a long time
It is utter nonsense of course and completely reprehensible morally. Times, Sunday Times
I find that there has not been any conduct on the part of the plaintiff that is scandalous, reprehensible or outrageous.
Chase … price gouging, while reprehensible, is not illegal unless it is made so by the state. Think Progress » ThinkFast: July 18, 2006
She called it "a reprehensible case of prosecutorial misconduct."
His conduct was thoroughly reprehensible.
The truth is, that if "lobby members" endeavor to carry their points by threats or bribery or treating or forming combinations, called logrolling, they are reprehensible. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912
That will not stop it being seen as morally reprehensible, nor a perception of there being one law for the police and another for the public. Times, Sunday Times
An edict of the archduke of Austria in 1551 complained of the reprehensible activities of the Jews: “These scandalous evil actions are said to flow in good part from the fact that the Jews in numerous localities dwell and move about among the Christians without any distinguishing marks and without any difference in clothes and costume and thus cannot be distinguished from Christians nor recognized as Jews.” Bloodlust
As an aside, this incestuous relationship between the tour and Sky also led to the reprehensible sale of the Ryder Cup to a satellite channel to which only a small percentage of the country's golfers subscribe.
It would be hypocritical for many politicians to say that it is morally reprehensible to take drugs when they themselves once smoked dope or took coke. Times, Sunday Times
Reprehensible as the crime was, the girls were put on a train to Minneapolis to live with an aunt.
The kind of Family of Man photography that promotes an upbeat ‘love conquers all’ sentimentality Sontag finds morally reprehensible in its naivety.
How dishonourable and reprehensible, and I am very surprised that you would deal with such a person as this man is evolving to be.
To vandalize an art work - even a bad art work, even a morally reprehensible art work - is to adopt the tactics of the enemies of culture.
I guess what makes this so obviously reprehensible is the fact that this position is not grounded on any rationale but on unreasoned, exaggerated fear, and not a little bit of an ingredient called “sadism.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy
adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife
Why, the S/R even has an amateur "humor" columnist named Doug Clark (a kind of pudgy Dave Barry wannabe who lacks only the intelligence and wit to vault him to stardom in Boise or Elko) who was classy enough to write yet another insulting attack on West just last week, following Frontline's expose of the S/R's reprehensible smear campaign against West. Sound Politics: Vote for America's worst newspaper
I happen to view myself in a very human way, and I describe the mistakes I made and the way I acted sometimes as being pretty reprehensible.
All this frivolity works well in supporting a movie that, by its nature, falls into university cliches except for the refreshing fact that its characters are more reprehensible than usual.
And the father and mother taking their daughter kissed her and let her depart, warning her to worship her husband’s father and mother, love her husband, to rule well the meiny, to govern the house and to keep herself irreprehensible, that is to say, without reproof. The Golden Legend, vol. 2
It is a reprehensible practice that corrodes our ability to make rational decisions.
Yes, indeed -- the NFL, that crackerjack enforcement organization when it comes to making sure that this kind of thing isn't glorified, is making additional cash on the photos (the "shots of the shots") it claims to find so reprehensible. NFL says putting photos of illegal hits up for sale was a mistake
It is utter nonsense of course and completely reprehensible morally. Times, Sunday Times
Forcible expulsion of a population is reprehensible and a violation of international law.
It is utter nonsense of course and completely reprehensible morally. Times, Sunday Times
I find it morally irreprehensible of him to come out with this now. Bartlett rips McClellan, calls allegation 'total crap'
Through Kocher's exposition it became quite clear that complete extirpation of the thyroid is reprehensible. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1909 - Presentation Speech
So I do sympathise with him, although his behaviour is highly reprehensible. Times, Sunday Times
I think Oliver's actions would be entirely reprehensible were it not for the fact that Madeleine herself sometimes appears to be a willing - and possibly witting - participant in his ruse.
Mr Cramer said the violence by anti-government protestors was reprehensible.
For instance, hate speech could be transmitted via the Internet from one jurisdiction, where it was acceptable, to another, where it would be reprehensible, with dialogic interaction by the receivers.
his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible
This behaviour is unacceptable and is morally reprehensible. The Sun
The idea that covenant marriage ought to be sanctioned by the state is illiberal, reprehensible and abhorrent.
Although his subsequent post still has some bearing to the point of the article I linked, his behavior is reprehensible.
The secret pride of our heroine and every gentler feeling of her bosom were roused from their recent state of torpidness by the idea that the very appearance she wished on all occasions to avoid, had now become so conspicuous, as to require the encouraging support of the individual from whose observation it particularly behoved her to conceal every reprehensible bias in his favour, or every circumstance that even bore the semblance of such Stella of the North, or the Foundling of the Ship
All this would be riveting, except that the plot of "Gethsemane" -- in which the web of political corruption is unpicked by an equally reprehensible journalist who seems to have had sex with the Home Minister's under-age daughter -- doesn't really stand up. How Europe Inspired Disney's Wonderful World
An experienced buckjumper will decide as the saddle is being put on him to get rid of it as soon as possible without any apparent reason for such reprehensible conduct. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864
They who are convinced of His will, which is the law of laws, and the sovereign of sovereigns, cannot think it reprehensible that this, our corporate realty and homage, that this our recognition of a signiory paramount -- I had almost said this oblation of the state itself -- as a worthy offering on the high altar of universal praise, should be performed with modest splendour and unassuming state. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics
Those activities fall into an irreprehensible category known as "Hazing," as well as being poor military pratice. A Soldier's Story: Recruit is 'changing before our eyes'
That will not stop it being seen as morally reprehensible, nor a perception of there being one law for the police and another for the public. Times, Sunday Times
It is the cry of a person who feels himself to be in grave danger, but it is also the cry of the Church in the midst of the many snares that surround her, that threaten her holiness, that irreprehensible integrity of which the Apostle Paul speaks, that must be maintained for the coming of the Lord. Zenit: Papal Advent Homily
What makes this especially reprehensible is that these so-called advocates are pushing radical policies while remaining largely immune from the impact of these policies. Waldo Jaquith - Christians United for Israel.
He vacillated an hour between his translation of St Fortunatus 'hymn, _Quem terra, pontus aethera_, and "Red as a Rose is She," which, although he thought it as reprehensible for moral as for literary reasons, he was fain to follow out to the vulgar end. A Mere Accident
So I do sympathise with him, although his behaviour is highly reprehensible. Times, Sunday Times
Manifestation of my words came fourteen years after I'd spoken there but at the time it was only an honest bleat of frustration with a system that was reprehensible.
Substantial indemnity costs are reserved for cases involving reprehensible, scandalous or outrageous conduct.
If Blagoavich is eventually convicted, or his peers determine that his conduct was irreprehensible, then it becomes a matter of determining whether the Governor was of sound mind, and whether any decisions he made was based upon sound reasoning. Senate Dems To Block Burris' Path To Senate -- Perhaps Even Literally
In brief, he senses that it is somehow inhumane to condemn all the so-called "collaborationist" regimes of Festung Europa indiscriminantly as morally reprehensible. Genocide in Hungary: An Exchange
I told the publisher that I thought that was totally reprehensible.
Today began with another thoroughly reprehensible example of my almost excessive insecurity, sieved through a fine mesh of my permanently resident paranoia.
The newspaper offered only a grudging apology for its reprehensible victimization of Lee and did not discipline any of the reporters involved.
The inequality in the world just now is reprehensible, but human ingenuity and enterprise can triumph against the odds.
If your father allows you to swear at your mother without censure, it's horrible and reprehensible, but a private matter.
A team official said: 'It was a reprehensible act that had an adverse effect on the honour and morale of the national team. The Sun
It is absolutely reprehensible for lobstermen to usurp our right to enjoy boating without dodging hazards to navigation.
This over-reaction is of course a bluff, an attempt to silence opposition, almost suggesting that these practices, reprehensible to me, are necessary for secular democracy.
While all peddling of honours is reprehensible, the sale of peerages is most serious because it trades a seat in the legislature.
Young as I was, I had learned that a constable's acts, of whatever apparent character, are prompted by the most reprehensible motives, and I avoided him by dodging into the oilery by a side door which happened to stand ajar. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales
According to the common translation of this text, Paul exhorts the Christians of Thessalonica to keep themselves irreprehensible "for" the coming of the Lord. Archive 2008-11-30
It is only since he left office that'the master' has seemed morally reprehensible and an embarrassment to the country. Times, Sunday Times
Their own scheming behavior was equally if not more reprehensible.
The fact that some members of a group behave in reprehensible ways does not justify denying basic civil rights to all members. The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges Against Anti-Homosexuality Street Preacher Dropped in England
It seemed a reprehensible use of one's arbitrary social status.
Globalization processes create academically uncomfortable and sometimes politically reprehensible forms of hybrid histories, all shadowed by commodifications of various sorts.
To defend the rights of racists to discriminate is reprehensible and especially so when it is done by a major party nominee for the U.S. Senate .... The Volokh Conspiracy » So a Libertarian and a Liberal Walk into a Bar
They are normally only awarded where the conduct can be described as reprehensible, scandalous or outrageous.
They shouldn't consider the author's past offensiveness, or the reprehensibleness of the ideas he expresses outside the paper.
BLITZER: ... the police right away, was -- I believe he used the word reprehensible when he acknowledged it. CNN Transcript Aug 26, 2009
His conduct was thoroughly reprehensible.
It has a mandate to deal with investigations in an expeditious manner, and should not have to tolerate inappropriate delays and what amounts to reprehensible conduct.
And to leave him out of the list is irreprehensible. Top 10 Midget Performances » Scene-Stealers
We are perhaps inured to some of its excesses, but I don't think any Scot does not find it reprehensible.
Boasting toddlers seem far less reprehensible than boasting teenagers.
It is utter nonsense and completely reprehensible morally. Times, Sunday Times
Never use the passive voice in an incitement to action, however vile or reprehensible.
Oh, how the morally rightous liberals are going to pounce all over this irreprehensible conduct because we all know how superiorly civil they conduct themselves at all times!! McDonnell drops F-bomb in live interview
It is utter nonsense of course and completely reprehensible morally. Times, Sunday Times
This behaviour is unacceptable and is morally reprehensible. The Sun
- Mo Elleithee, a senior Gray advisor, issued a statement to D.C. Wire this afternoon calling the fliers "tacky" and "reprehensible. Fliers urge voters to 'Slap' Fenty
It is utter nonsense of course and completely reprehensible morally. Times, Sunday Times
I find that there has not been any conduct on the part of the plaintiff that is scandalous, reprehensible or outrageous.
They are all shallow and their actions, attitudes, and values reprehensible.
I had allowed my feelings about his often reprehensible behaviour to undermine my assessment of him in purely sporting terms. Times, Sunday Times
But just to make the distinction I see clear, I think it's not necessarily the case that tormenting humaniform simulacra, whatever the medium, is bad for your soul (or rather, morally wrong) -- I think it's only if, in so tormenting them, you engage with them or conceive of them, psychologically, as fellow-humans that it becomes really reprehensible (leaving aside the problem of psychopaths who don't really see their actual fellow-humans as fellow-humans). If your robot seems human enough, would it not damage your soul to mistreat it?
Railings and ravings rantipole we hold are reprehensible, Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891
Sanford - who had voted to impeach President Bill Clinton and called Clinton's sexual escapades "reprehensible" - said his relationship with the woman became physical in 2008, when the governor went to Buenos Aires for an economic development trip. WISTV - Local News RSS
Never use the passive voice in an incitement to action, however vile or reprehensible.
But if, by cosmic coincidence, it turns out to be truly influential, is there a single person here who thinks that it will be used for anything but a justification for the seizure of power by those that Bryan would find utterly reprehensible? A Confession: What I Was Thinking the Morning of November 3, 2004, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
As a nation, we have become so desensitized to the immoral and the reprehensible that ads like these can run in not one, but at least two (that I know of) national women's magazines.
CW is targeting young females and these characters are morally irreprehensible. Why I’m Not Supporting Barsformars.com | the TV addict

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