reprehensibility

rep·re·hen·si·ble

R0163400 (rĕp′rĭ-hĕn′sə-bəl)adj. Deserving rebuke or censure: "Few legal codes were as reprehensible as the Jim Crow laws" (Pete Bodo).

[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin reprehēnsibilis, from Latin reprehēnsus, past participle of reprehendere, to reprehend; see reprehend.]

rep′re·hen′si·bil′i·ty, rep′re·hen′si·ble·ness n.rep′re·hen′si·bly adv.

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reprehensibility - being reprehensible; worthy of and deserving reprehension or reproofevilness, evil - the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world"

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