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reprehensible

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The intentional decision of policymakers to prioritize the wellbeing of a previable fetus with a beating heart over the wellbeing of the pregnant person is not just medically incorrect, it is socially reprehensible with dire consequences.

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Fourth, let’s get to why the connection to Brown is so morally reprehensible.

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The new Bluebook citation rule shines a light on this practice, forcing lawyers in search of precedent to find some not entangled with the reprehensible human trafficking that has riven the Western Hemisphere since 1619.

His behavior is reprehensible, but his charisma is undeniable.

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The society may now remove someone from a bird’s name if they played a role in “reprehensible events.”

What an alternately messed up, irresistibly catchy, reprehensible, utterly charming holiday classic.

None of this makes what Incognito and the Dolphins did any less reprehensible.

The latest documents make the four days of closings seem all the more reckless and reprehensible.

But he described the “very personal insults” directed at the two air hostesses and pilot “as nothing short of reprehensible.”

Then again, some of them doubtless think it reprehensible that he speak at a memorial service for an old "communist".

His life and conduct subsequently was extremely imprudent and reprehensible.

"Yes; and it was a very reprehensible affair, I think," Mrs. Courtney answered stiffly.

This insolent conduct was specially reprehensible in the case of Grenville, who owed his advancement to Bute's recommendation.

"That's only amateurish and besides reprehensible," said the Tennessee Shad.

Pandora's raiment, I grieve to state, has slipped down about her waist in a manner exceedingly reprehensible.

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On this page you'll find 48 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to reprehensible, such as: culpable, disgraceful, objectionable, sinful, amiss, and blamable.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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