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to reprehensible

adjective

Blameworthy, censurable, guilty.

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Yes, Citizens United pales in comparison to this, but keep in mind that Scalia was the person who once compared homosexuality to "reprehensible" conduct, such as "murder, for example, or polygamy, or cruelty to animals".

Second to second he transforms from charming ("What an elegant pair of nostrils!") to reprehensible to pitiable to shrewd.

If the answer is, as I hope, "no", then the dialogues about genocide or atrocities in the same breaths as historical facts meant to justify those acts risks elevating those acts to plausible-but-wrong as opposed to reprehensible, unconscionable and unjustifiable.

The harshest responses were less aesthetic than moral, castigating the movie in terms ranging from "vacuous and irresponsible" to "reprehensible" and "blood-boiling".

I'm not asking the press to ask McCain equally absurd questions about his ties to reprehensible people (though if they continue to ask Obama, then the gross hypocrisy of only doing it to one candidate and not the other is going to become unbearable soon, if it isn't already).

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Not only is it morally reprehensible to restrict or deny life-saving drugs to those who need them (talk about death panels), it is a colossal miscalculation of public health policy, not to mention fiscally irresponsible.

"I think to use children as a protest tool and not to to attend school is reprehensible.

Xhopakelxhit urged Obama to say that he finds the "violence committed by the riot police to be reprehensible" and to have the department of justice investigate the continuing human rights violations.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan condemned the attack and reiterated the government's determination to "continue to take every step to put an end to the reprehensible acts of all groups and persons involved in acts of terrorism".

It is not enough for Charley to decree such conduct to be reprehensible in its own right and to promise its practitioners untoward consequences in the hereafter.

The government, he said, would "continue to take every step to put an end to the reprehensible acts of all groups and persons involved in acts of terrorism".

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