Poor judgment is reprehensible, but not illegal.
To condemn openly as being evil or reprehensible.
Originally, it laid down some reasonable factors for lower courts to consider, including how reprehensible they considered the defendant's conduct.
Jo leaned her chin on her knees in a disconsolate attitude and shook her fist at the reprehensible John.
The court upheld the original conviction of harassment, with judges saying that an anonymous call to reveal an affair is a reprehensible act regardless of whether the claim is true.
morally reprehensible.
Denounce: To condemn openly as being evil or reprehensible.
was subjected to outrageous cruelty. What is Iflagrant is glaringly or scandalously reprehensible:
Mr MacAskill said some might consider the new laws "draconian" but action was required to "stamp out" the small minority who carried out this "reprehensible" behaviour.
He laments that the administration has abandoned the high principles that America set with the Nuremberg tribunals, which accorded even the most venal and reprehensible Nazis open and fair trials.
Your conduct/attitude is most reprehensible.
Clinton had phoned Colom Thursday to express her personal outrage and deep regret over the "reprehensible research."
a criminal waste of talent; a deplorable act of violence; adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife.
I thought that is really reprehensible.
She was not reprehensible in any way-just a full-blood animal glowing with a love of life.
The activities of the insurgents and terrorists have been reprehensible causing fear among our citizens and a near-breakdown of law and order in parts of the country, especially in North.
Mr. Cramer said the violence by anti-government protestors was reprehensible.
blameworthy:Deserving blame; reprehensible.
Two of them concern gerrymandering, the reprehensible practice by politicians of drawing nonsensical district boundaries to include supporters and exclude opponents.
He said McCain was using the kind of dirty tricks that Ronald Reagan would have found reprehensible.
The local prosecutor, Kym Worthy, said that "no individual has the right to exact the death penalty on another, no matter how reprehensible the behaviour - that is why we have laws."
reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins).
Some state law instructs jurors to punish "reprehensible" conduct.
