Vocabulary
Reprehensible
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
deserving censure or condemnation.
Urdu meaning
قابل مذمت، قصور وار
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- HE crackdown by the Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association against those of its members engaged in the reprehensible act of adulterating premium quality cotton with inferior grade fibre is welcome, though long overdue.
- THE world has been witnessing unprecedented atrocities in Gaza, beginning with the reprehensible attack on Oct 7, 2023, by Hamas militants, which killed 1,139 Israeli nationals and saw 200 taken hostage.
- That any country would consider recognising Israel in the midst of the Gaza genocide is a reprehensible thought.
- Overall, the European war has cost more lives than the even more reprehensible, and largely one-sided, Middle East conflict.
- While his Palestine plan is morally reprehensible, Trump`s by now legendary drooling over Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal has left him with little credibility even in the realm of real estate that he sees Gaza as.
Synonyms
deplorable, disgraceful, discreditable, disreputable, despicable, blameworthy, culpable
Antonyms
creditable, praiseworthy, good
Curator example
“his complacency and reprehensible laxity”
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