reprovable

comparative more reprovable · superlative most reprovable

1. reproachable; worthy of reproof or censure

   Some great examples we find in story , and their names are remembered in honour ; but we can make no judgment of them , but that their zeal was reprovable for its intemperance , though it had excellency in the matter of the passion

   1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC

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   Feeling hungry, she wanted to ask for food (an unthinkable action in conscious behavior) and so knocked on the door, but when nobody answered she entered the house (again a reprovable action) and saw a bearded man sitting in the single room.

   2004, Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, chapter 9, in The People of Aritama: The Cultural Personality of a Columbian Mestizo Village, →ISBN, page 429