reprehensible

What it means

1. Blameworthy, censurable, guilty.

   Synonyms: at fault, remiss, to blame, at fault, blameworthy, censurable, culpable, guilty

2. Deserving of reprehension.

   At the inquest, the conduct of guard Austin was described as reprehensible.

   2022 August 24, Bruce Healey, “Wartime tunnel crash: a miraculous escape”, in RAIL, number 964, page 52

   2 more examples

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

   1998, Greg Morrow, Dylan Verheul, “Sandman 14”, in The Sandman Annotations, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2008

   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?

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

   Synonyms: damnable, deplorable, scornworthy, abject, filthy, base, beggarly, blameworthy

In a sentence

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

1998, Greg Morrow, Dylan Verheul, “Sandman 14”, in The Sandman Annotations, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2008

Where it comes from

1. Latinreprehendo
2. Late Latinreprehensibilis
3. Englishreprehensible

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