reprehensible

Responding to his first statement about Colombian citizens being killed, the White House said it looked forward to President Petro "publicly retracting his baseless and reprehensible statement".

Addressing a conference of health managers this week, he called the union "morally reprehensible" and accused it of acting like a cartel, attempting to hold the public and government to ransom.

"They threaten the future of the NHS full stop. And I think that is a morally reprehensible position to be in."

"Dr Watson's statements are reprehensible, unsupported by science," the laboratory said in a statement.

"What happened was reprehensible" and humiliating for the adviser, said Fernando Rospigliosi, saying "this type of task" was not part of his job.