Sentence examples for if reprehensible from inspiring English sources

That The Irish World would pursue its political agenda to sell newspapers is understandable, if reprehensible.

But his defense of his pitcher, while understandable, is tasteless, if not reprehensible.

But as the ghostwriter he was "trying hard to find my way around" behavior that he considered "if not reprehensible, at least morally questionable".

After all, it's not as if such an act of violence would somehow be any less reprehensible if it had been conducted against a mosque or a Hindu temple or a synagogue.

To equate the two is reprehensible, if not unethical.

It would be reprehensible if this crime culture were to spread to the UK.

"Mr. Weberman, and his attorneys, are appalled by these allegations, which if true, are reprehensible," Mr. Farkas said.

The people they kill are killed for reasons that are coherent even if they're reprehensible.

Is it absurd, or more reprehensible, if a sheep farmer rather than a dentist or a welder drops the bombs?

And here is where the use of the technology may cross the line from morally ambiguous to morally reprehensible, if not also illegal, behavior.

Mr. Putin has drawn a line at poison gas, but it will be cynical and reprehensible if he continues to supply Mr. Assad with conventional arms, which have killed the vast majority of Syria's civilian victims.