be reprehensible
Example Sentences
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It would be reprehensible to take Bert to the shelter because he’s so old, and I can’t do something like that to my brother’s dog.
From Slate • Nov. 20, 2018
While these pictures can be considered art and each has historical significance, they can also be recognized as sentimentalizing or implicitly endorsing behavior now thought to be reprehensible.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2017
“I want you to know that I consider these actions, if true, to be reprehensible and I know they are not representative of the agents of the U.S. Border Patrol,” Kerlikowske said.
From Time • Mar. 17, 2014
It’s almost impossible to imagine what it must be like to be that deeply steeped in a culture that almost anyone on the outside looking in would understand to be reprehensible.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2013
This adventure, burlesque though it is, makes it quite clear that one can be reprehensible on one or two points in our hemisphere, and be absolutely innocent in the rest of the world.
From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire
