reprehensible

Borrowed from Late Latin reprehensibilis, from Latin reprehendo; equivalent to reprehend +‎ -ible.

reprehensible (comparative more reprehensible, superlative most reprehensible)

1. Blameworthy, censurable, guilty.
2. Deserving of reprehension.
   • 1998, Greg Morrow and Dylan Verheul, The Sandman Annotations, Sandman 14

     Scarlett O’Hara was the heroine of the novel/movie Gone with the Wind and the reprehensible sequel Scarlett.

   • 2019, Gary Younge, Shamima Begum has a right to British citizenship, whether you like it or not, in the Guardian.

     We, as a society, should in some way be held accountable for how a 15-year-old girl went from watching Keeping Up With the Kardashians to joining a terrorist cult in a war zone. Begum was 15 when she did a reprehensible thing; Javid is 49. What’s his excuse?

• at fault, deplorable, remiss

• reprehensibility
• reprehend
• reprehensive
• irreprehensible
• reprehension

reprehensible (plural reprehensibles)

1. A reprehensible person; a villain.

Borrowed from Late Latin reprehensibilis, from Latin reprehendo.

• IPA^(key): /repɾeenˈsible/, [repɾeẽnˈsiβle]

reprehensible (plural reprehensibles)

1. reprehensible

• reprensible

• reprehender
• reprehensión