Shocked by the events of September 11th, politicians all over the world condemned the terrorists for their reprehensible deed.
Source: tatoeba (1976)
Reprehensible
//ˌɹɛpɹɪˈhɛnsɪb(ə)l//
Synonyms for "reprehensible" (216 found)
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Closest matches (44)
at faultwrongabominableaccusableamissarraignablearrantatrociousawfulbadbasebeastlybeneath contemptblackblamableblamefulblameworthybrutalcensurablechargeable
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Related words (108)
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1 entriesRelated terms
5 entriesderived
4 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
10 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
43 translations across 18 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- осъдителен adj (deserving of reprehension)
Catalan
1 entries- reprensible adj (deserving of reprehension)
Czech
4 entries- hanebný adj (blameworthy)
- hanebný adj (deserving of reprehension)
- odsouzeníhodný adj (blameworthy)
- zavrženíhodný adj (deserving of reprehension)
Dutch
4 entries- afkeurenswaardig adj (blameworthy)
- afkeurenswaardig adj (deserving of reprehension)
- schuldig adj (blameworthy)
- verwerpelijk adj (deserving of reprehension)
Esperanto
2 entries- kondamninda adj (blameworthy)
- kondamninda adj (deserving of reprehension)
Finnish
2 entries- moitittava adj (blameworthy)
- tuomittava adj (blameworthy)
French
4 entries- blâmable adj (blameworthy)
- condamnable adj (deserving of reprehension)
- coupable adj (blameworthy)
- répréhensible adj (deserving of reprehension)
German
4 entries- kritikwürdig adj (deserving of reprehension)
- rügenswert adj (deserving of reprehension)
- tadelnswert adj (deserving of reprehension)
- verwerflich adj (blameworthy)
Greek
4 entries- αξιοκατάκριτος adj (blameworthy)
- αξιόμεμπτος adj (blameworthy)
- αξιόμεμπτος adj (deserving of reprehension)
- κατακριτέος adj (blameworthy)
Hungarian
1 entries- elítélendő adj (deserving of reprehension)
Icelandic
1 entries- ámælisverður adj (blameworthy)
Norwegian
1 entries- klanderverdig adj (blameworthy)
Old English
1 entries- tāllīċ adj (deserving of reprehension)
Polish
3 entries- naganny adj (blameworthy)
- naganny adj (deserving of reprehension)
- szpetny adj (deserving of reprehension)
Portuguese
2 entries- repreensível adj (blameworthy)
- repreensível adj (deserving of reprehension)
Russian
1 entries- предосуди́тельный adj (blameworthy)
Spanish
4 entries- reprehensible adj (blameworthy)
- reprehensible adj (deserving of reprehension)
- reprensible adj (blameworthy)
- reprensible adj (deserving of reprehension)
Swedish
2 entries- förkastlig adj (blameworthy)
- klandervärd adj (blameworthy)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Not all violence is equally reprehensible; not all wars are equally unjust.
Source: tatoeba (679930)
Miss Eliza was one of those people who give you the impression that life is indeed a vale of tears, and that a smile, never to speak of a laugh, is a waste of nervous energy truly reprehensible.
Source: tatoeba (6000152)
What you have come to know, preserve by exercise; what you have not learned, seek to add to your knowledge; for it is as reprehensible to hear a profitable saying and not grasp it as to be offered a good gift by one's friends and not accept it.
Source: tatoeba (6203059)
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