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reprehensibility |
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reprehension
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reprehension
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun reprehension has 1 sense
- reprehension(n = noun.communication) rebuke, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to take the rebuke with a smile on his face" has particulars: riot act, chiding, objurgation, scolding, tongue-lashing, what for, bawling out, castigation, chewing out, dressing down, earful, going-over, upbraiding, berating, blowing up, reproach, lecture, speech, talking to, chastening, chastisement, correction, admonishment, admonition, monition
is a kind of criticism, unfavorable judgment
Derived form verb reprehend1
CIDE DICTIONARY
reprehension, n. [L. reprehensio: cf. F. répréhension.].
Reproof; censure; blame; disapproval. [1913 Webster]
"This Basilius took as though his mistress had given him a secret reprehension that he had not showed more gratefulness to Dorus."
[1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Censure; reproof; reprimand. See Admonition.
THESAURUS
reprehension
admonishment, admonition, anathema, arraignment, blame, castigation, censure, chastisement, chiding, condemnation, correction, damnation, decrial, denouncement, denunciation, excoriation, flaying, fulmination, fustigation, impeachment, indictment, lecture, lesson, objurgation, pillorying, rating, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reprobation, reproof, reproval, scolding, sermon, skinning alive, spanking, stricture, upbraidingROGET THESAURUS
reprehension
Disapprobation
N disapprobation, disapproval, improbation, disesteem, disvaluation, displacency, odium, dislike, dispraise, discommendation, blame, censure, obloquy, detraction, disparagement, depreciation, denunciation, condemnation, ostracism, black list, animadversion, reflection, stricture, objection, exception, criticism, sardonic grin, sardonic laugh, sarcasm, insinuation, innuendo, bad compliment, poor compliment, left-handed compliment, satire, sneer, taunt, cavil, carping, censoriousness, hypercriticism, reprehension, remonstrance, expostulation, reproof, reprobation, admonition, increpation, reproach, rebuke, reprimand, castigation, jobation, lecture, curtain lecture, blow up, wigging, dressing, rating, scolding, trimming, correction, set down, rap on the knuckles, coup de bec, rebuff, slap, slap on the face, home thrust, hit, frown, scowl, black look, diatribe, jeremiad, jeremiade, tirade, philippic, clamor, outcry, hue and cry, hiss, hissing, sibilance, sibilation, catcall, execration, chiding, upbraiding, exprobation, abuse, vituperation, invective, objurgation, contumely, hard words, cutting words, bitter words, evil-speaking, bad language, personality, disapproving, scandalized, disparaging, condemnatory, damnatory, denunciatory, reproachful, abusive, objurgatory, clamorous, vituperative, defamatory, satirical, sarcastic, sardonic, cynical, dry, sharp, cutting, biting, severe, withering, trenchant, hard upon, censorious, critical, captious, carping, hypercritical, fastidious, sparing of praise, grudging praise, disapproved, chid, in bad odor, blown upon, unapproved, unblest, at a discount, exploded, weighed in the balance and found wanting, blameworthy, reprehensible, to blame, worthy of blame, answerable, uncommendable, exceptionable, not to be thought of, bad, vicious, unlamented, unbewailed, unpitied, with a wry face, reproachfully, Int, it is too bad!, it won't do, it will never do!, marry come up!, Oh!, come!, 'sdeath!, forbid it Heaven!, God forbid, Heaven forbid!, out upon, fie upon it!, away with!, tut!, O tempora!, O mores!, shame!, fie, fie for shame!, out on you!, tell it not in Gath!.
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