"reprehensive" meaning in English

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          "text": "Christ's reply ; in which , by a reprehensive shortness , he both clears the man's innocence , and vindicates God's proceedings , and so states them both upon a right foundation",
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          "ref": "2012, Paul Caetano, The Enigma of the Sphinx, page 33:",
          "text": "He stops at Winna's reprehensive stare.",
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          "ref": "2021, Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018, page 300:",
          "text": "By the last two periods of the corpus, indeed, craindre deveolps a reprehensive interpretation, arising with certain specific contextual factors to yield a flavor of reproach (or apology).",
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        "Containing reprehension or reproof."
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          "ref": "1948, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, Limitation of Venue in Certain Actions Brought Under the Employers' Liability Act, page 199:",
          "text": "Well, there would not be anything particularly reprehensive in a plaintiff wanting to go to a forum where the verdict would be larger.",
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          "ref": "1963 January, “The Color of God”, in Ebony, volume 18, number 3, page 82:",
          "text": "But today in South Africa, a Black Christ is politically offensive; today in England a Black God is theatrically reprehensive; today in the United States, the only white-approved dark deity is Marc Connelly's De Lawd.",
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          "ref": "2024, Arie de Pater and Ville Hoikkala, “Free Speech under Threat in Finland and Beyond?”, in Evangelical Review of Theology, volume 48, number 1, page 9:",
          "text": "She added, 'Räsänen claims homosexuality is a negative and reprehensive personal attribute and identity, and that all homosexuals are inferior as human beings.'",
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