reprehensible
应受谴责
definition
adjective
his complacency and reprehensible laxity
deserving censure or condemnation.
example
Globalization processes create academically uncomfortable and sometimes politically 'reprehensible' forms of hybrid histories, all shadowed by commodifications of various sorts.
It seemed a 'reprehensible' use of one's arbitrary social status.
Read my previous posts, the examples I cite as ethically or morally 'reprehensible' business practices.
Magee argues that Wagner's anti-Semitism, though 'reprehensible' , was not mirrored in his work, but his extenuations have the tone of a capable defense attorney pleading for us to exercise reasonable doubt.
The kind of Family of Man photography that promotes an upbeat ‘love conquers all’ sentimentality Sontag finds morally 'reprehensible' in its naivety.
A venial sin, in economic terms, is an expression of greed that's 'reprehensible' enough to warrant punishment but not so serious that it significantly undercuts the country's long-term growth.
Nothing in rural France is more 'reprehensible' than a piece of cultivable ground left unattended.
To vandalize an art work - even a bad art work, even a morally 'reprehensible' art work - is to adopt the tactics of the enemies of culture.
I happen to view myself in a very human way, and I describe the mistakes I made and the way I acted sometimes as being pretty 'reprehensible' .
Plagiarism is first and foremost a moral crime - it's about deception, and it's 'reprehensible' because the plagiarist is passing off someone else's ideas or words as his own.
All this frivolity works well in supporting a movie that, by its nature, falls into university cliches except for the refreshing fact that its characters are more 'reprehensible' than usual.
I told the publisher that I thought that was totally 'reprehensible' .
It's a long way from either 'reprehensible' or genius.
They are all shallow and their actions, attitudes, and values 'reprehensible' .
Equally troubling are the myths of geographical entitlement that undergird the 'reprehensible' euphemism of ‘ethnic cleansing’.
I think Oliver's actions would be entirely 'reprehensible' were it not for the fact that Madeleine herself sometimes appears to be a willing - and possibly witting - participant in his ruse.
But his behavior toward his son is often 'reprehensible' .
As a nation, we have become so desensitized to the immoral and the 'reprehensible' that ads like these can run in not one, but at least two (that I know of) national women's magazines.
There is no doubt that individual scientists have said things that are 'reprehensible' and that they have been wrong but that in no way undermines the scientific enterprise.
That the tragedy and those at its center should be exploited for ratings and political gain is not just wrong - it's 'reprehensible' .
Both parties behave 'reprehensibly' to each other throughout the film until the all-too-convenient happy ending.
He already knows you've behaved 'reprehensibly' - after all, selfishness and pettiness are the crux of his worldview.
Clifford's contention about the 'reprehensibility' of believing without or against the evidence still stands.
The court held that subsequent acts of repair should lessen the jury's final judgement about the 'reprehensibility' of an act.
Under this definition of ‘reprehensibility,’ the 'reprehensibility' of that fraud should be measured against the potential harm to everyone the defendant tried to harm or exposed to injury through its reckless conduct.
Attempting to prove the legal 'reprehensibility' of the enemy can only result in entangling one's own forces in the very litigation one is attempting to impose on the enemy.
The chance of disaster was appreciably high and you voluntarily and 'reprehensibly' took that risk with its terrible consequences.
It's morally 'reprehensibly' and against all the foundations of a civil society to allow people who have not been tried, charged or otherwise told why they've been detained to be kept without release.
Yet it has been given spurious credibility by talking heads on television, by jargonising think-tanks, by politicians and, most 'reprehensibly' , by complicit academics in quest of knighthoods and patronage.
Its 'reprehensibility' apart, this form of control is hardly enforceable in the long run, given that women's collection activities are necessary for household subsistence.
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