Therefore it is reprehensiblesometimes not to simulate.
Thus the marriage act may be meritorious; and yet it becomes reprehensible in those who have vowed virginity, because they are bound to a yet greater good.
Now hope is so due to God that it is reprehensible to hope in man, according to Jer.
Further, no man is derided except for something reprehensible which puts him to shame.
I should hesitate to decide whether a very wicked Catholic ought to be preferred to a heretic, in whose life one finds nothing reprehensible beyond the fact that he is a heretic.
In short, adultery isn't so very reprehensible if the King doesn't know.
Your Majesty," cried Bernhardt, "if I ever did a reprehensible thing, it was forced upon me by intolerable conditions.
I beseech Your Majesty to order the Crown Princess to Pillnitz and put a stop to her most reprehensible conduct.
The same extortions and reprehensible practices are still resorted to in order to keep up this "institution.
For years she has carried on, under the cloak of a "midwife," the most cruel and reprehensible occupation which ever disgraced an outraged community.
We would not detract aught from what is justly their due; but it is as reprehensible to give them credit for what they did not possess, as it is to rob them of what is theirs.
I submit it to the consideration of the gentleman, whether, if it be reprehensible in the one case, it can be censurable in the other?
Mr. Dreschell had brought up his family on the theory that borrowing money was only a shade less reprehensible than stealing it.
It was of such an extraordinarily reprehensible character that Julie at first had to be told what it was.
Jo leaned her chin on her knees, in a disconsolate attitude, and shook her fist at the reprehensible John.
The lawyers on and off the bench are no more corrupt than other classes of the community, but they are more conspicuous, and more reprehensible in consequence.
And I assure you that not a voter, not a progressive member of our community, thinks himself doing what is at all reprehensible by conferring dignity and trust on Hans Shund.
I do not think that it occurred to either Addison or Theodora that there was anything in the least reprehensible in conspiring to drive grocer Tibbetts out of town.
On the contrary, they were as ugly as the evil one, but they were without horns or tails, and so not easily recognizable as that particular and very reprehensible person.
The Chippewas hold suicide "to be a foolish, not a reprehensible action," and do not believe it to entail any punishment in the other world.
Duplicity is held more reprehensible in a gentleman than in a shopkeeper or a peasant.
Germanicus," said he, "is more like the last of the Romans than in any sense reprehensible or degenerate in his tastes.
A demon addicted to the reprehensible habit of devouring the dead.
A habit reprehensible at puberty is second nature and an opprobrium in middle life.
The lives of the women assembled there in the 12th century were of a highly reprehensible character; the abbess was accused of incontinence and her evil ways were followed by the nuns.
It was as though he saw himself in a distorting glass--one of those nasty and reprehensible toys that fools give to children sometimes.
I don't use the word in the popular reprehensible sense, but as just what it means--without faith.
But this was neither reprehensible doctrinalism nor a corruption of original Lutheranism, but the very principle from which it was born and for which Luther contended throughout his life--a principle of life or death for the Lutheran Church.
He sang and wept, so they sought to deprecate him as if there were something reprehensible in an artist's pleasing the public.
Re-orchestration is not absolutely necessary and Meyerbeer's is no more reprehensible than those with which Mozart enriched Handel's Messe and La Fête d'Alexandre.
Through our own reprehensible editorial oversight, the printer received this unpolished copy instead of the finished poem.
Young as I was, I had learned that a constable's acts, of whatever apparent character, are prompted by the most reprehensible motives, and I avoided him by dodging into the oilery by a side door which happened to stand ajar.
For Cornelia to acknowledge her deliberate intention to offend, and in the same breath to offer a kiss of reconciliation, showed a reprehensible lack of proper feeling.
To pay a debt by means of a worthless cheque was evidently less reprehensible than to pilfer a brooch from a dressing-table.
To these audiences were presented dramatic pieces of a very reprehensible quality.
That an attorney should have the reprehensible taste to steal a worthless play seemed a slur upon the lawyer's judgment.
My regiment having at last been relieved at the guns and moved over to the heights above this ravine for no obvious purpose, I obtained leave to go down into the valley of death and gratify a reprehensible curiosity.
