How to Use reprehensible in a Sentence

reprehensible

adjective
  • This is reprehensible and his own party needs to tell him enough is enough.
    — Phillip M. Bailey, The Courier-Journal, 14 Apr. 2018
  • What is so reprehensible about trying to find a ring a woman likes?
    — Dara Mathis, The Root, 24 Jan. 2018
  • But art is only truthful when artists speak their truth, whether or not that truth is reprehensible to some.
    — Lisa Fogarty, Good Housekeeping, 10 Apr. 2018
  • May, in his ruling, said the loss of evidence is reprehensible, but was not done in bad faith.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 12 Sep. 2023
  • But the people who cheered his reprehensible actions sure do.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 28 June 2018
  • Dangling such harsh charges over a child’s head, even to extract a plea deal, is reprehensible and should not be lawful.
    — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Many of the mishaps were pre-snap fouls, which coach Kliff Kingsbury said was reprehensible.
    — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 28 July 2021
  • Surely there is no crime more reprehensible than the murder of children.
    — Associated Press, Billboard, 23 May 2017
  • To handle his dismissal in that way was reprehensible, in my opinion.
    — Mattathias Schwartz, The Intercept, 11 May 2017
  • What’s reprehensible to me is Teresa acts this way and everyone has to bow to her whims to stay on the show.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 9 May 2022
  • How do some of our reprehensible thoughts or disturbing ones seemingly come out of nowhere?
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 27 Aug. 2022
  • Nothing is more important and we will not be deterred by the reprehensible actions of those who seek to spread hate.
    — Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 22 June 2020
  • Just reprehensible, which makes the casting of this film so important.
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 20 Feb. 2021
  • All hate crimes are reprehensible.
    — Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Lawns were ecologically reprehensible and we were supposed to wipe them from the face of the earth.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 17 July 2021
  • This egregious act is reprehensible and never should have occurred.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • This egregious act is reprehensible and never should have occurred.
    — Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Worse, the abduction is kind of reprehensible, or the sight of dozens of terrified children is.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2022
  • Those three things adding up result in William not being able to control his anger and acting in a way that's reprehensible.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
  • This egregious act is reprehensible and never should have occurred.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • These hearings are a way for figures with views many of us would find reprehensible to attempt to mask them from public scrutiny.
    — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 10 Jan. 2017
  • And though the most appalling moments from such shows tend to go the most viral, the shows themselves are not uniformly reprehensible.
    — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2025
  • This reprehensible scavenging among the scavengables was like taking the tusks from an elephant.
    — Leah Garchik, SFChronicle.com, 13 Dec. 2020
  • The idea that Charlottesville would hire attorneys to take away those rights is reprehensible.
    — Del Quentin Wilber, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2017
  • This was a reprehensible attempt by someone to box in the President.
    — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 2 July 2019
  • Speaking of the arena dance floor, this is the usual place in our season-long reportage to single out the reprehensible surface.
    — al, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The white slave catchers are so reprehensible that Jeremiah knows the baby is better off being left in the forest.
    — Steffan Triplett, Vulture, 15 May 2021
  • Charlie Kirk's murder is sick and reprehensible, and our thoughts are with his family, children, and loved ones.
    — Alia Shoaib, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The violence is reprehensible and dishonors the good people fighting for a just cause.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2020
  • While many men whose actions were reprehensible, and sometimes criminal, were being brought down, there often was little thought to what would come next.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 14 Jan. 2020

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