Vocabulary Word
Word: reprehensible
Definition: deserving blame; blameworthy; V. reprehend: blame
Definition: deserving blame; blameworthy; V. reprehend: blame
Sentences Containing 'reprehensible'
She could only imagine, however, at last that she drew his notice because there was something more wrong and reprehensible, according to his ideas of right, than in any other person present.
My object has been to secure an amiable companion for myself, with due consideration for the advantage of all your family, and if my manner has been at all reprehensible, I here beg leave to apologise.''
But all these foolish arguments of old Sag-Harbor only evinced his foolish pride of reason--a thing still more reprehensible in him, seeing that he had but little learning except what he had picked up from the sun and the sea.
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