0 If someone's behaviour is reprehensible, it is extremely bad or unacceptable: --
1 deserving blame; recognized as bad: --
In this discourse altruism and selfishness are incompatible, and generally selfishness is morally reprehensible.
Defensible social values, in turn, are those that can be adequately justified by ethical theory; appropriately weighted values and interests are reasonable and not reprehensible.
These things were rejected not really because they were wrong or reprehensible, but because they had not in fact proved very enlightening.
Group-based antipathy is largely neutralized when an act of political expression is viewed by most people to be highly reprehensible.
No theory or methodology is "reprehensible," as far as any researcher who believes in the 'scientific method' is concerned.
We feel there is nothing reprehensible about such a mixture and that tolerating it is by no means necessarily a bad thing.
Domestic violence is increasingly coming to be viewed as totally reprehensible.
Disregarding her wishes the modern judiciary sees a runaway woman as transgressing traditional norms and morally reprehensible.