Reprehensible Definition & Meaning

reprehensible
adjective
  1. 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"

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  • "I replenish return and my reply is reprehensible"
    Q Strange — Strangeland

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