Reprehensible means deserving strong disapproval. Morally reprehensible, wholly reprehensible, reprehensible conduct.
It is formal and belongs to judgements, reports and statements rather than to speech. It condemns without describing, which is why it appears when somebody wants to say a thing was wrong without saying exactly what it was.
1adjectivereprehensibleDeserving strong disapproval.
“Cheating elderly people out of their savings is utterly reprehensible.”
reprehensible is a quality.
Latin reprehensibilis comes from reprehendere, to seize or blame — re plus prehendere, to grasp.
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English, today
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Borrowed from Latin reprehensibilis, from Latin reprehendo; equivalent to reprehend + ible.
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