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

I submit it to the consideration of the gentleman, whether, if it be reprehensible in the one case, it can be censurable in the other?

From The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society