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be reprehensible



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Thirlwall found their treatment to be "reprehensible", and said hospital executives used the risk of upsetting the parents as a convenient argument to justify not calling the police.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

It would be reprehensible to take Bert to the shelter because he’s so old, and I can’t do something like that to my brother’s dog.

From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2018

While these pictures can be considered art and each has historical significance, they can also be recognized as sentimentalizing or implicitly endorsing behavior now thought to be reprehensible.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2017

“I want you to know that I consider these actions, if true, to be reprehensible and I know they are not representative of the agents of the U.S. Border Patrol,” Kerlikowske said.

From Time ● Mar. 17, 2014

It seems, therefore, fair to acquit Orde of a discourtesy as aimless as it would be reprehensible.

From The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan


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