reprehensive
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Example Sentences
- "Christ's reply ; in which , by a reprehensive shortness , he both clears the man's innocence , and vindicates God's proceedings , and so states them both upon a right foundation"
- "He stops at Winna's reprehensive stare."
- "By the last two periods of the corpus, indeed, craindre deveolps a reprehensive interpretation, arising with certain specific contextual factors to yield a flavor of reproach (or apology)."
- "Well, there would not be anything particularly reprehensive in a plaintiff wanting to go to a forum where the verdict would be larger."
- "But today in South Africa, a Black Christ is politically offensive; today in England a Black God is theatrically reprehensive; today in the United States, the only white-approved dark deity is Marc Connelly's De Lawd."
- "She added, 'Räsänen claims homosexuality is a negative and reprehensive personal attribute and identity, and that all homosexuals are inferior as human beings.'"
Etymology
Compare French répréhensif.
Inflected Forms
more reprehensive (comparative)
most reprehensive (superlative)